British Music Collection
Celebrating the music of British Composers.
This series contains many classic recordings of British Music which are currently unavailable, alongside critically acclaimed performances from the Universal Classics archive.
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... — More…
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedAndrew Marriner (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Nicholas Daniel
Andrew Marriner is a flexible interpreter who brings out both the light and the shade in this work. The Eclogue, here played by a sensitive Piers Lane, is the wistfully pastoral middle movement... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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British Music Collection - William Walton - The Centenary Edition
RecommendedRobert Cohen (cello), Tasmin Little (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2002, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore
RecommendedThomas Round (Ralph), Jean Hindmarsh (Josephine), Jeffrey Skitch (Captain Corcoran), Gillian Knight (Buttercup), Donald Adams (Dick Deadeye), Joyce Wright (Hebe), George Cook (Bill Bobstay), Eric Wilson-Hyde (Bob Becket)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Isidore...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedMargaret Ritchie (soprano), John Gielgud (speaker), London Philharmonic Choir, Isobel Baillie (soprano), John Cameron (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
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Building a Library, May 2005, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Simon Rattle & Peter Maxwell Davies
Recommended25th anniversary edition - first time on CD
Philharmonia Orchestra, The Fires of London, Simon Rattle, Peter Maxwell Davies
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Contemporary
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British Music Collection - George Butterworth
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedBryn Terfel, Philip Langridge, Donald Sweeney, Benjamin Luxon
Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, David Hill, Richard Hickox, Edward Higginbottom, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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British Music Collection - Peter Warlock
Norman Bailey (bass-baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Neville Marriner, David Hill
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British Music Collection - Harrison Birtwistle
John Harle (saxaphone), Paul Clarvis (percussion), Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Christine Whittlesey (soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ensemble Inter Contemporain, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Andrew Davis, Pierre Boulez
