Discs: 6
Release date: 17th May 2010
Barcode: 0028947823452
Medium: CDPeter Pears - Anniversary Tribute Bach, J S :
Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben (from Christmas Oratorio)
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester , Karl Münchinger
St John Passion, BWV245: Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the judgement
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester , Karl Münchinger
Mass in B minor: Benedictus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Eugen Jochum
St John Passion, BWV245: Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the judgement
John Shirley-Quirk , Gwynne Howell
English Chamber Orchestra , Wandsworth School Boys Choir
Bennett, R R :
Tom O’Bedlam’s Song
Joan Dickson (piano)
Berlioz :
L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25: Les pèlerins étant venus
Goldsbrough Orchestra, The St. Anthony Singers, Colin Davis
Bridge :
Tis but a week
When you are old
Goldenhair
So perverse
Journey's end
Britten :
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
Dennis Brain (horn)
The Boyd Neel String Orchestra
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22
At Night (from The Turn of the Screw)
Peter Pears (Peter Quint), David Hemmings (Miles), Arda Mandikian (Miss Jessel), Olive Dyer (Flora), Jennifer Vyvyan (Governess)
English Opera Group Orchestra
Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart (from The Rape of Lucretia)
English Chamber Orchestra
Canticle II - Abraham & Isaac Op. 51
Norma Procter (alto)
War Requiem, Op.66: Move him into the sun
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
London Symphony Chorus , The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra
Six Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61
We committed his body to the deep (from Billy Budd)
London Symphony Orchestra
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35
How now my love? (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Josephine Veasey (Hermia)
London Symphony Orchestra
Albert the Good! (from Albert Herring)
English Chamber Orchestra
May God bless the Queen (from Owen Wingrave)
Benjamin Luxon (Owen Wingrave), Peter Pears (Sir Philip Wingrave), Heather Harper (Mrs Coyle), Sylvia Fisher (Miss Wingrave), John Shirley-Quirk (Spencer Coyle), Jennifer Vyvyan (Mrs Julian), Dame Janet Baker (Kate), Nigel Douglas (Lechmere)
English Chamber Orchestra
Canticle V: The Death of St. Narcissus, Op. 89
Osian Ellis (harp)
The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me (from Death in Venice)
English Chamber Orchestra , Steuart Bedford
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (from Peter Grimes)
Old Joe has gone fishing (from Peter Grimes)
The bridge is down, we half swam over (from Peter Grimes)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
O Waly, Waly
The foggy, foggy dew
The Brisk Young Widow
Le Roi s'en va-t'en chasse
The Plough Boy
Busch, W :
The echoing green
The Shepherd
If thou wilt ease thine heart
Come, o come, my life's delight
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Bush, A :
Voices of the Prophets
Alan Busch (piano)
Delius :
To Daffodils
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Dieren :
Dream Pedlary
Take, o take those lips away
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Dowland :
I saw my Lady weepe
In darkness let me dwell
Julian Bream (guitar)
Elgar :
The Dream of Gerontius: Sanctus fortis
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Grainger :
Bold William Taylor
Handel :
Love in her eyes sits playing (from Acis and Galatea)
Lo! Here my love (from Acis and Galatea)
Thurston Dart (harpischord)
Philomusica of London, Adrian Boult
Ireland :
The Land of Lost Content
The Trellis
Love and friendship
Friendship in misfortune
The One Hope
Lutoslawski :
Paroles tissées
London Sinfonietta , Witold Lutoslawski
Moeran :
The Merry Month of May
Viola Tunnard (piano)
Morley :
It was a lover and his lass
Julian Bream (guitar)
Pilkington :
Rest sweet Nimphs
Julian Bream (guitar)
Purcell :
When a cruel long winter (from The Fairy Queen)
Rainier :
Cycle for Declamation
Rosseter :
What then is love but mourning?
Julian Bream (guitar)
Schubert :
Gute Nacht (No. 1 from Winterreise, D911)
Der Lindenbaum (No. 5 from Winterreise, D911)
Frühlingstraum (No. 11 from Winterreise, D911)
Der Leiermann (No. 24 from Winterreise, D911)
Das Wandern (No. 1 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)
Der Neugierige (No. 6 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)
Der Jäger (No. 14 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)
Die böse Farbe (No. 17 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)
Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)
Schumann :
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (No. 1 from Dichterliebe, Op. 48)
Ich grolle nicht (No. 7 from Dichterliebe, Op. 48)
Ich hab' im Traum geweinet (No. 13 from Dichterliebe, Op. 48)
Die alten, bosen Lieder (No. 16 from Dichterliebe, Op. 48)
Szenen aus Goethes Faust: Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft'gem Kreise
Jenny Hill, Margaret Cable , John Elwes, Neil Jenkins , John Noble
Aldeburgh Festival Singers, English Chamber Orchestra
Schütz :
Matthäus Passion: Jesus aber stund für dem Landpleger
Meriel Dickinson, John Shirley-Quirk , Benjamin Luxon
Heinrich Schütz Choir, Roger Norrington
Tippett :
Boyhood's End
The Heart's Assurance
Noel Mewton-Wood (piano)
Songs for Ariel
Vaughan Williams :
On Wenlock Edge
Zorian String Quartet
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About The recorded legacy of the great English tenor Peter Pears is substantial and wide-ranging. It embraces Baroque repertory and Elizabethan songs as well as a vast amount of twentieth-century English music and German Lieder.
This anniversary collection features Pears in a wide selection of this repertory and it also charts his career as a recording artist from landmark recordings such as the first recording of Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (made in 1944) through to Britten's Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus (composed in 1974), recorded near the end of his career in 1976.
Many recordings included here appear on CD for the first time as international releases. Performances of Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge, and of Tippett’s Songs for Ariel , are of especial interest, and in a different vein, Pears sings Lutoslawski’s Paroles tissées, which he commissioned.
A true rarity is the first ever release of Schubert's Ganymed.
Packaging is cap box; 28-page booklet features a new essay on Pears by George Hall.
Reviews 2011 edition
“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 Death in Venice....All in all, a superb tribute to one of the most characterful and important singers of the twentieth century.”
