Orchestral, Britten (composer)

Special offer. Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra

Paul Watkins (cello), Robert Murray (tenor) BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner

BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Disc of the month
Building A Library, June 2022, Recommended Recording

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Special offer. Britten: Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, the Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Edward Gardner conducts Britten

Nicky Spence (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

Presto Recording of the Week, 30th May 2025
Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025

CD: $14.50

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Images

Anna Lapwood (organ of Ely Cathedral)

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio

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Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Diversions; William Walton: Sinfonia Concertante

Clare Hammond (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, George Vass

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
Gramophone Awards, 2026 Shortlist, Concerto

SACD: $17.75

Amidst the Shades

Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice

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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem

Heather Harper (soprano). Philip Langridge (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Roderick Elms (organ) London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, Richard Hickox

Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Choral
Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Engineering

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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Special Edition)

Dame Edna Everage (narrator), Barry Humphries (narrator) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery

Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem

Heather Harper (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Martyn Hill (tenor) Choristers of St Paul`s Cathedral, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Hickox

Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Choral
Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Engineering
Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended

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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

LSO String Ensemble, Roman Simovic

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Special offer. Vaughan Williams & James Macmillan: Oboe Concertos

Nicholas Daniel (oboe & conductor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais) Britten Sinfonia, James MacMillan

BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Concerto Choice
Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Contemporary Winner

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Songs of Rain

Karolina Errera (viola), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)

Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent

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Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake | and other songs

Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)

Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal

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Special offer. Britten: Les Illuminations and other works

Julie Roset (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster

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Special offer. Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Richard Bonynge

Building a Library, December 2011, First Choice

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The British Project | Elgar - Britten - Walton - Vaughan Williams

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Presto Recording of the Week, 13th August 2021
Record Review, 7th August 2021, Record of the Week
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music

Special offer. English Music for Strings

English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Britten - Songs

Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano)

Penguin Guide, Rosette

CD: $17.50

Fairy Tales

Regula Mühlemann (soprano), CHAARTS Chamber Artists

Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Vocal

CD: $19.50

Day of These Days | The British Isles Reflected in Song

Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Vocal Choice

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Coming soon. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings | Goossens - Ireland - Walton

Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christopher Parkes (horn), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

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Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 & Simple Symphony

The Britten Quartet

BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Reissue/Archive Choice

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Special offer. Britten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10, etc.

Dance!

Daniel Hope (violin), Zürcher Kammerorchester (chamber orchestra), Benjamin Günst (violin), Jenö Lisztes (cimbalom), Omar Massa (bandoneon), Stephane Logerot (bass), Joscho Stephan (guitar), Jacques Ammon (piano), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)

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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan

Penguin Guide, Rosette

Britten: Cello Symphony and Other Works

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) New Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Building a Library, March 2005, First Choice
Building a Library, June 2017, First Choice

Special offer. Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox

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Special offer. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, etc.

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Penguin Guide, Rosette

Special offer. Overtures from the British Isles, Vol. 3

BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba

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Special offer. Poulenc, Prokofiev & Britten: Sinfoniettas

Sinfonia Lahti, Dima Slobodeniouk

BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Orchestral Choice

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Special offer. La Mer - Debussy, Britten, Mercure

Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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Flax & Fire

Stuart Jackson (tenor), Jocelyn Freeman (piano)

Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020

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Special offer. 30 Ans de Duo

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

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Special offer. Very Best of English Song

Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano), Robert Lloyd (bass), Nina Walker (piano), Frederick Harvey (baritone), Jack Byfield (piano), Sir Philip Ledger (piano), Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano), Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders, Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute), Michael Chance (countertenor), Christopher Wilson (lute), Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (harpsichord), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Boothby (lute), Owen Brannigan (bass), Ernest Lush (piano), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano), Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, Alan Civil (horn), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (bass-baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Pauline Lowbury (violin), John Noble (baritone) Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Fretwork, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir David Willcocks, Christopher Finzi, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Charles Groves, Bernard Haitink, George Weldon

Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)

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Special offer. Within a Dream - A Celebration of Richard Hickox | in association with the Richard Hickox Foundation

Richard Hickox

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The Sixteen - Sounds Sublime | Includes some of The Sixteen’s most celebrated recordings in this beautiful 2CD digi-pack set

The Sixteen, With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, With the BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers

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Legendary Recordings: Josef Vlach & Czech Chamber Orchestra

Czech Chamber Orchestra, Josef Vlach

Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended

4 CDs: $30.00

Britten conducts Britten vol. 4

Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Mark Lubotsky (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Julius Katchen (piano), Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Alexander Murray (flute), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Roger Lord (cor anglais), William Waterhouse (bassoon), Osian Ellis (harp), Denis Blyth (timpani) English Chamber Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Building a Library, February 2010, First Choice
Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended

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Britten: War Requiem, Penderecki: Tren & Berg: Violin Concerto

Kari Lövaas (soprano), Anthony Roden (tenor), Theo Adam (bass-baritone), Hansjürgen Scholze (organ), Manfred Scherzer (violin) Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Dresden Cathedral Boys Choir, Leipzig Radio Chorus, Herbert Kegel

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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Ladies of the BBC SO Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

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Britten - Purcell Realizations

Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton, Sarah Walker, James Bowman, John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Richard Jackson, Simon Keenlyside & Graham Johnson

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Nocturnal Variations

Ruby Hughes (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice

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Special offer. British Composers: A Celebration

Richard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown (vocals), Tom Culbert (vocals), Peter Pears (vocals), Herbert Dawson (organ), Joan Cross (soprano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Ian Partridge (vocals), Wesley Warren (trumpet), Philip Langridge (vocals), Richard Suart (vocals), John Tomlinson (vocals), Peter Hall (vocals), Michael George (vocals), David Wilson-Johnson (vocals), Elise Ross (vocals), Felicity Palmer (vocals), Men's voices of the Liverpool Philharmonic Choir (vocals), David Atherton (vocals), Paul Robinson (bass-baritone), Michael Pearce (bass-baritone), Christopher Hughes (organ), Leonard Pearcey (vocals), Louis Kentner (piano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Phyllis Sellick (piano), Cyril Smith (piano), Chilingirian Quartet (string quartet), Jennifer Partridge (piano), Baccholian Singers of London (vocal ensemble), David Bell (organ), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Ronald Thomas (director), Neville Dilkes (harpsichord), Harry Bramma (organ), David Willison (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (vocals), Lisa Saffer (soprano), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Sir Adrian Boult (director), Laurence Olivier (vocals), Thomas Hemsley (bass-baritone), Ernest Lush (piano), Soloists of the Plymouth Series, Howard Shelley (piano), Ulrich Heinen (cello), Neil Mackie (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano), Richard Farnes (organ), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Bach Choir (vocals), Peter Donohoe (piano), Janet Craxton (cor anglais), Hugh Bean (violin), Frances Mason (violin), David Butt (flute), Eileen Croxford (cello), Christopher Wellington (viola), Graham Johnson (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus (vocals), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cambridge Girls' Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Britten Quartet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Worcester Cathedral Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sinfonia of London, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, BBC Theatre Chorus, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Children's Chorus, London Madrigal Singers, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Music Group Of London, Northern Sinfonia, London Symphony Orchestra, English Sinfonia, Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series, Minnesota, Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series, New Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Studio 2 Concert Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Lawrance Collingwood, Sir David Willcocks, Sir William Walton, Daniel Harding, Christopher Robinson, Barry Wordsworth, Christopher Finzi, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Arthur Bliss, Sir Reginald Goodall, Meredith Davies, Christopher Bishop, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Neville Marriner, Stephen Cleobury, Robert Irving, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Malcolm Arnold, Oliver Knussen, Philip Brunelle, Sir Edward Elgar, Reginald Kilbey, André Previn, Sir Charles Groves, Philip Ledger

Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended

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Themes & Variations | Three sets of variations - two previously unrecorded - with contributions from 19 British composers ranging from William Walton to Judith Weir

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen

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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra & Simple Symphony

London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Building a Library, October 1999, First Choice

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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, etc.

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Antál Dorati

Building a Library, December 2006, Mid-Price Choice

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Paavo Jarvi conducts Holst & Britten

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi

Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice

Jiří Bělohlávek conducts Josef Suk & Britten

Divertimenti

Trondheimsolistene

Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice

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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek

BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Orchestral Choice

2 CDs: $24.25

Britten: Reflections

Matthew Jones (violin and viola) & Annabel Thwaite (piano)

BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Chamber Choice

CD: $14.25

Special offer. Britten: Spring Symphony, Op. 44, etc.

Sheila Armstrong, Janet Baker, Robert Tear London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Andre Previn

Britten: Simple Symphony, Temporal Variations & other works

Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Philip Dukes (viola) Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford

CD: $12.75

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell, Op. 34

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Record Review, 10th July 2021, Record of the Week

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Remember Your Lovers | Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey

John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice

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Britten & Elgar: Sea Interludes, Violin Concerto

Michael Barenboim (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Alessandro Crudele

International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs

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Britten: String Quartets, Vol. 2

Maggini Quartet

Building a Library, October 2003, First Choice

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Britten: Piano Concerto, Overture to Paul Bunyan & Johnson over Jordan

Joanna MacGregor (piano) English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford

Building a Library, March 2018, Also Recommended

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Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Lorenzo Soulès (piano), Máté Szücs (viola), Richard Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton (tenor) Aldeburgh Strings, Markus Däunert

Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended

Special offer. Britten: Orchestral Works

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

Building A Library, June 2022, Also Recommended

Special offer. Finzi / Britten / Holst - Choral Works

Alison Barlow (soprano), David Hoult (baritone), John Alley (organ), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice