Peter Pears
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Britten: War Requiem Recommended2023 remastering
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Britten: Cello Symphony and Other Works RecommendedMstislav Rostropovich (cello), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
The Cello Symphony, written in 1963 as part of a series for the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, was the first major sonata-form work written since the Sinfonia. The idea of a struggle... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2017, First Choice
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 RecommendedSung in English
Peter Pears (Evangelist), Heather Harper (soprano), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), Gwynne Howell (Jesus), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Britten characteristically refuses to follow any set tradition, whether Baroque, Victorian or whatever, and, with greater extremes of tempo than is common (often strikingly fast), the result... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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J S Bach: St Matthew Passion
RecommendedPeter Pears (Evangelist), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Christus), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Christa Ludwig (alto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Walter Berry (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Klemperer
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Choral Performance
3 CDs
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Britten conducts Britten vol. 4 RecommendedSviatoslav 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),...
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Building a Library, February 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Mahler Pioneers
Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Peter Pears, Norma Procter (contralto), Goldsmiths Choral Union, Bbc Symphony Ortchestra, Walter Goehr, Hermann Scherchen
London Symphony Orchestra
2 CDs
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Galina Vishnevskaya
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius RecommendedPeter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Yvonne Minton
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Richard Hickox, Adrian Boult
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Peter Warlock: Collected 78rpm Recordings
Recorded 1925-51, digitally remastered.
Josef Szigeti (violin), Nikita Magalov (piano), René Soames (tenor), Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano), Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute), John Armstrong (baritone), Parry Jones (tenor), Ann Wood (mezzo-soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Cecil...
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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