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Britten - Canticle I - "My Beloved Is Mine And I Am His" Op. 40
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encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Remember Your Lovers
Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
John Mark Ainsley brings the full range of his formidable musicianship to these hard-wrought but haunting masterpieces. His ringing high register and almost miraculously expressive pianissimo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 9 - Benjamin Britten 2
Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano), Derek Lee Ragin (alto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Frank Lloyd (horn), Osian Ellis (harp), Steuart Bedford (piano), Dame Judi Dench (narrator)
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Special offer. The Canticles
Ian Bostridge (tenor), David Daniels (counter-tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Timothy Brown (horn), Aline Brewer (harp), Julius Drake (piano)
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Britten: My Beloved is Mine
Song cycles by Benjamin Britten
James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Gilchrist is as agile as his pianist and evidently attuned to the importance of her role...the mystic union of ground-bass piano with confident vocal line in the concluding 'Death, be not proud'... —
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Britten: Canticles
Vladimir Dubois (soloist), Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Anne Le Bozec (soloist), Marc Mauillon (soloist), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (soloist), Pauline Haas (soloist)
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Britten: 3 Canticles
Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano), John Elwes (alto), Barry Tuckwell (horn)
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Britten: Canticles I-V
Ben Johnson (tenor), James Baillieu (piano), Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Martin Owen (horn) & Lucy Wakeford (harp)
the expressive nuance of James Baillieu's piano accompanying is reminiscent of Britten's own...Johnson is at his best in Still Falls the Rain and in The Death of Narcissus, in writing that reveals... —
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Special offer. Britten: Complete Songs Volume 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano), James Geer (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Caryl Hughes (mezzo), Philip Smith (baritone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor)
James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... —
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Britten: Canticles & The heart of the matter
Daniel Norman (tenor), Christopher Gould (piano), Benjamin Maclean (treble), William Towers (countertenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Harriet Walter (speaker), Richard Watkins (horn) & Hugh Webb (harp)
