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Peter Pears, Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley-Quirk, Nigel Douglas, Jennifer Vyvyan, Heather Harper, Janet Baker English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Peter Colman-Wright (baritone), Robin Leggate (tenor), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Janice Watson (soprano), Sarah Fox (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & James Gilchrist (tenor) City of London Sinfonia & Tiffin Boys Choir, Richard Hickox Following the success of his recent performance of the opera at London’s Cadagon Hall, the seasoned Britten performer Richard Hickox has committed the composer’s rarely recorded Owen Wingrave to disc. Only one rival CD recording is available at present. Commissioned by BBC television in 1966, the work is something of a Cinderella among Britten’s operas, despite its imaginative, closely knit score. One possible reason is that it was composed for television rather than the theatre. Like its 1954 predecessor, The Turn of the Screw, Owen Wingrave is based on a ghost story by Henry James. Britten read the story while he was working on The Turn of the Screw, and even then conceived the idea of setting it as an opera. The music employs the relatively spare textures that Britten adopted in his later years. “Richard Hickox's command of the score...banishes once and for all the idea that the work was a mere appendix to the composer's operatic career: its pacifist theme was a central one to Britten's creative being, and he invested the opera with all the musical richness and textural originality of an unrivalled master of the medium, best expressed here in the playing of the City of London Sinfonia, which is wonderfully alive.” The Telegraph, 14th June 2008 “This excellent recording by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia conjures shimmering life into oft-ignored episodes of brilliant musical characterisation. The stand-out in a first-class cast is James Gilchrist's Lechmere, full of eager innocence, loyalty and vim.” The Times, 14th June 2008 **** “Hickox and his cast make the strongest possible case for the opera: Peter Coleman-Wright’s eloquent, idealistic Owen might seem mature casting, but there are fine cameos from Alan Opie (Owen’s tutor), Robin Leggate (the General) and James Gilchrist (Lechmere). Pamela Helen Stephen’s Kate is not as bitchy as Janet Baker’s, Elizabeth Connell’s Miss Wingrave not quite as formidable as Sylvia Fisher’s strident, domineering portrait, but both sing well.” Sunday Times, 8th June 2008 “Hickox's excellent cast boasts some supreme exponents. Hickox draws haunting colours and chordings from his City of London Sinfonia, and the recording is flawlessly presented.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “The new set… becomes the first recording in any medium to do the work full musical and dramatic justice. It should also satisfy the curiosity of those who wonder why its devotees hail Wingrave as Britten's greatest completed opera.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Anne Dawson, Elizabeth Gale, Charlotte Hellekant, Martyn Hill Choristers of Westminster Cathedral Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, directed by Margaret Williams Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | A Tribute To Benjamin BrittenSpecial Box Set with 7 Operas
Britten: | Peter Grimes (ENO 1994) Philip Langridge, Janice Cairns, Alan Opie,
Ann Howard, Andrew Green English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton The Rape of Lucretia (ENO 1987) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kathryn Harries, Jean Rigby, Russell Smythe, Richard van Allan, Allan Opie,
Anne-Marie Owens, Cathryn Po English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend Billy Budd (ENO 1988) Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allan, Neil Howlett. English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton Gloriana (ENO 1984) Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Richard van Allan, Elizabeth Vaughan, Alan Opie English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder The Turn of the Screw (Schwetzinger 1990) Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager, Machiko Obata Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Steuart Bedford Owen Wingrave (Film, 2001) Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Hilton Marlton, Josephine Barstow, Anne Dawson, Elizabeth Gale, Charlotte Hellekant, Martyn Hill Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano Death in Venice (Glyndebourne 1990) Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance The Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Sinfonietta, Graeme Jenkins Let’s make an opera An Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl. Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion) The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey |
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Peter Grimes: (100 383)
The Rape Of Lucretia (102 021)
Billy Budd (100 278)
Gloriana (102 097)
The Turn Of The Screw (100 199)
Owen Wingrave (100 372)
Death In Venice (100 172)
Recording Date: 2001
Place of recording: various
Running Time: more than 1000 min
Picture Format: 16:9, 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
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