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Offer,Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 2

the set remains an essential bargain investment for collectors drawn to this repertoire — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars

Release Date: 8th Nov 2004
Catalogue No: 4756029
Label: Decca
Series: Collectors Edition, Britten conducts Britten
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Work length2:23:34

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Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), David Kelly (bass), Stephen Terry (voice), Norman Lumsden (bass), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Alfred Deller (countertenor), Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano), Heather Harper (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Ian Wodehouse (treble), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Gordon Clark (treble), Keith Raggett (tenor), Kenneth McDonald (tenor), Helen Watts (contralto), Richard Dakin (treble), Owen Brannigan (bass), John Pryor (treble)
London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of Downside School, Purley, Emanuel School Wandsworth, Boys' Choir
Benjamin Britten
Recorded: 1966-09-23
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

"Over Hill, Over Dale"

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"Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"

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"Well, Go Thy Way"

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"How Now My Love?"

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"Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"

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"Welcome Wanderer!"

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"Is All Our Company Here?"

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"Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"

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"Through the Forest Have I Gone"

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"Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"

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"Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"

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"You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"

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"What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"

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Introduction: The wood

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"Are We All Met?"

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"I See Their Knavery"

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"Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"

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"Hail, Mortal, Hail!"

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"I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"

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"How Now, Mad Spirit?"

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"Flower Of This Purple Dye"

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"Puppet? Why So?"

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"This Is Thy Negligence"

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"Up and down, Up and Down"

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"On the Ground, Sleep Sound"

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"My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"

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"Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"

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"When My Cue Comes, Call Me"

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"Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"

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"Now, Fair Hippolyta"

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"If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"

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"Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"

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"In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"

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"O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"

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"O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"

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"You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"

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"This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"

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"Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"

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"Asleep, My Love?"

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"Come, Your Bergomask"

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"Now the Hungry Lion Roars"

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Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93

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Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Recorded: 1977-03-31
Recording Venue: All Saints' Church, Petersham, Surrey

In May, In Brilliant Athens

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Oh Gods Of Wrath

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My Time's Too Short, Your Highness

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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

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Peter Pears (tenor), Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Jenny Hill (soprano), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Drake (baritone)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
Recorded: 1970-07-20
Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

"Rome Is Now Ruled By the Etruscan Upstart"

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"It Is An Axiom Among Kings"

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"Here the Thirsty Evening"

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"Who Reaches Heaven First"

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"Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball"

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"Collatinus Is Politically Astute"

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"There Goes a Happy Man!"

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"Tarquinius Does Not Dare"

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"My Horse! My Horse! Tarquinius Does Not Wait"

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"Their Spinning-Wheel Unwinds"

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"Listen! I Heard a Knock"

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"Time Treads Upon the Hands Of Women"

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"The Oatmeal Slippers Of Sleep"

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"The Prosperity Of the Etruscans"

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"She Sleeps As a Rose"

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"Within This Frail Crucible Of Light"

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"Lucretia!...What Do You Want?"

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Interlude: "Here In This Scene"

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"Oh! What a Lovely Day!"

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"We'll Leave the Orchids For Lucretia"

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"Flowers Bring To Every Year"

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"You Were Right"

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"Lucretia! Lucretia!"

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"Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me"

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"This Dead Hand Lets Fall"

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Epilogue: "Is It All?"

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Britten: The Turn of the Screw

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Peter Pears (tenor), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), David Hemmings (boy soprano), Joan Cross (soprano), Olive Dyer (soprano), Arda Mandikian (soprano)
English Opera Group
Benjamin Britten
Recorded: 1955-01-03
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Prologue

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Theme - Scene 1: The Journey

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Interlude: Variation I - Scene 2: The Welcome

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Interlude: Variation II - Scene 3: The Letter

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Interlude: Variation III - Scene 4: The Tower

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Interlude: Variation IV - Scene 5: The Window

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Interlude: Variation V - Scene 6: The Lesson

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Interlude: Variation VI - Scene 7: The Lake

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Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night

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Interlude: Variation VIII - Scene 1: Colloquy and So- lioquy

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Interlude: Variation IX - Scene 2: The Bells

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Interlude: Variation X - Scene 3: Miss Jessel

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Interlude: Variation XI - Scene 4: The Bedroom

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Interlude: Variation XII - Scene 5: Quint

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Interlude: Variation XIII - Scene 6: The Piano

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Interlude: Variation XIV - Scene 7: Flora

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Interlude: Variation XV - Scene 8: Miles

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Britten: Death in Venice

Work length2:24:56

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Michael Follis (voice), Peter Pears (tenor), Neville Williams (bass-baritone), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Keith Jones (voice), Angela Vernon Bates (voice), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Stuart Harling (baritone), Ronald Murdock (voice), Michael Bauer (voice), Sheila Brand (voice), Anna Vincent (voice), Anne Wilkens (mezzo-soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Iris Saunders (soprano), Penelope McKay (soprano), Stephen James Adams (voice), Janice Hooper Roe (voice), Peter Leeming (baritone), Robert Carpenter Turner (voice)
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford
Recorded: 1974-04-18
Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

"My Mind Beats On"

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"Who's That? A Foreigner, a Traveller No Doubt"

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"Hey There, Hey There, You!"

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"Serenissima...Low-Lying Clouds, Unending Grey"

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Overture: Venice

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"Ah, Serenissima!"

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"Mysterious Gondola"

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"We Are Delighted To Greet the Signore"

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"Was I Wrong To Come?"

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"There Is Indeed In Every Artist's Nature"

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"Children's Games: Adziu, Adziu"

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"Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"

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"Naturally, Signore, I Understand"

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"Here Will I Stay, Here Dedicate My Days"

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"First, the Race!"

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"The Boy, Tadzio, Shall Inspire Me"

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"So, It Has Come To This"

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"Guardate, Signore!"

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"Do I Detect a Scent?"

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"Careful Search Now Leads Me To Them"

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"This Way For the Players, Signori"

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"Fiorir Rose In Mezo Al Giasso"

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"One Moment, If You Please"

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"In These Last Years"

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"So It Is True"

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"Receive the Stranger God"

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"The Empty Beach: Do What You Will With Me"

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"Yes! A Very Wise Decision"

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"Hurrah For the Piazza"

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"Chaos, Chaos and Sickness"

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"The Wind Still Blows From the Land"

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Interlude: "Ah, No!"

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Britten: Gloriana

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Christopher Cornall (treble), Josephine Barstow (soprano), Dominic Gill (treble), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Janice Watson (soprano), Willard White (bass), Alan Opie (baritone), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Richard van Allan (bass), Philip Langridge (tenor), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), Jenevora Williams (mezzo-soprano), Jonathan Summers (baritone), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), James Miller-Coburn (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Tom Finucane (gittern)
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Monmouth School Choir
Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded: 1992-11
Recording Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

1. Prelude

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2. The Tornament

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3. Recitative & Fight

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4. Entrance of the Queen

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5. Recitative

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6. The two Lords' Explanation

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7. Raleigh's Song

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8. Ensemble of Reconciliation

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9. Recitative & Final March

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10. Prelude & Dialogue

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11. The Queen's Song

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12. Cecil's Song of Government

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13. Recitative & Essex's Entry

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14. First Lute Song

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15. Second Lute Song

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16. The First Duet for the Queen & Essex

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17. Soliloquy & Prayer

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18. Prelude & Welcome

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19. The Masque

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20. Finale

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21. Prelude & Song

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22. Duet

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23. Double Duet

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24. Quartet

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25. Pavane

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26. Conversation

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27. Galliard

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28. Conversation & the Queen's Entrance

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29. Lavolta

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30. Conversation

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31. Morris dance

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32. Recitative

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33. The Queen's Burlesque

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34. Quartet

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35. March

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36. The Queen's Announcement

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37. Ensemble

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38. Coranto

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39. Prelude & Chatter

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40. Essex's Intrusion

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41. The Second Duet of the Queen & Essex

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42. The Dressing-Table Song

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43. The Entrance of Cecil

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44. Cecil's Report

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45. Discussion

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46. The Queen's Decision

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47. Ballad - Rondo

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48. Prelude & Verdict

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49. Cecil's Warning

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50. The Queen's Dilemma

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51. Trio

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52. Lady Essex's Pleading

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53. Penelope Rich's Pleading

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54. Epilogue

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Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince), Dame Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Lucia), Jenny Hill (Bianca), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Bryan Drake (Junius), Jennifer Vyvyan (Governess), Peter Pears (Prologue/Peter Quint), David Hemmings (Miles), Arda Mandikian (Miss Jessel), Joan Cross (Mrs Grose), Olive Dyer (Flora), Peter Pears (Aschenbach), John Shirley-Quirk (Traveller, Elderly Fop etc), James Bowman (Apollo), Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth), Philip Langridge (Essex), Della Jones (Lady Essex), Jonathan Summers (Charles Blount), Alan Opie (Cecil), Yvonne Kenny (Lady Rich), Bryn Terfel (Henry Cuffe), Richard van Allan (Walter Ralegh), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo)

London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, English Opera Group Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, Sir Charles Mackerras

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2010

the set remains an essential bargain investment for collectors drawn to this repertoire

Offer,Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 2

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