Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices
Until 12th June we are offering all Decca downloads at MP3 prices.
Please note that this offer excludes new releases from 2024, and MP3 prices are not discounted.
Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices, Peter Pears (tenor)
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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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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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Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano), Dennis Brain (horn), Peter Pears (Peter Quint), David Hemmings (Miles), Arda Mandikian (Miss Jessel), Olive Dyer (Flora), Jennifer Vyvyan (Governess), Norma Procter (alto), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), Benjamin Luxon (Owen...
so astute is his characterization and formidable his musical intelligence that he is able to portray the comic flavour of Albert Herring with as much conviction as the haunting melancholy of... — More…
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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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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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Britten: Saint Nicolas & Rejoice in the Lamb Sir Peter Pears (tenor), David Hemmings (treble), Michael Hartnett (treble), Jonathan Steele (alto), Philip Todd (tenor), Donald Francke (bass), Ralph Downes (organ), George Malcolm (organ)
The Aldeburgh Festival Choir, The Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival Chorus, Girls' Choir...
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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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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, and Phaedra Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), Bryan Drake (Junius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Bianca), Jenny Hill (Lucia)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford
two outstanding performances by Dame Janet Baker, recorded at the peak of her career...Luxon makes the selfish Tarquinius into a living character...The seductive beauty of the writing - Britten... — More…
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Elly Ameling, Tom Krause
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Karl Munchinger
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