Britten: Albert Herring

This page lists all recordings of Albert Herring, by Benjamin Britten (1913-77) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Britten: Albert Herring

Britten: Albert Herring


April Cantelo, Sylvia Fisher, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan

English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

“Britten's own 1964 recording of the comic opera, Albert Herring, remains a delight. Peter Pears' portrait of the innocent Albert is full of unique touches. Sylvia Fisher is a magnificant Lady Billows. The recording remains astonishingly vivid.” Penguin Guide

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Decca Opera Sets - 4218492

(CD - 2 discs)

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Britten: Albert Herring

Britten: Albert Herring


John Graham-Hall, Alan Opie & Jean Rigby

Glyndebourne Festival Opera & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

"British opera at its best" Daily Express

DVD Video

Region: 2,3,4,5

Format: NTSC

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Warner Classics Warner Vision - 5046787902

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Britten: Albert Herring

(complete opera)


Christopher Gillett, Josephine Barstow, Felicity Palmer, Robert Lloyd, Peter Savidge, Gerald Finley, Ann Taylor, Della Jones, Susan Gritton, Stuart Kale

Northern Sinfonia, Stuart Bedford

Naxos Opera Classics - 8660107-08

(CD - 2 discs)

£8.49 (£7.23 ex. VAT)

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Britten: Albert Herring

Britten: Albert Herring

(complete opera)


James Gilchrist, Pamela Helen Stephen, Roderick Williams, Stephen Richardson, Rebecca Evans, Alan Opie, Anne Collins, Susan Bullock, Robert Tear, Sally Burgess

City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Chandos - CHAN10036

(CD - 2 discs)

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Britten: Albert Herring

Britten: Albert Herring

The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen - September 15, 1949

Libretto by Eric Crozier and Directed by Basil Coleman


Joan Cross, Gladys Parr, Margaret Ritchie, Otakar Kraus, Roy Ashton, Norman Lumsden, Denis Dowling, Peter Pears, Nancy Evans, Catherine Lawson, Anne Sharp, Elisabeth Parry & Alan Thompson

The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

This live recording is of a performance given by the English Opera Group, conducted by the composer in the Theatre Royal, Copenhagen on 15th September 1949. It is a fascinating document, coming, as it does, only two years after the first performance of the opera and with no less than eleven members of the original cast still in the team. The composer’s studio recording of Albert Herring was not made until 1964, and, excellent though it is, by then Peter Pears was the only role-creator still in the cast. All limitation of the sound quality aside, this is a wonderful survivor and one of the earliest recorded examples of Britten and the EOG in performance.

Released or re-released in last 6 months

Nimbus - NI5824/6

(CD - 3 discs)

£18.49 (£15.74 ex. VAT)

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Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 1

Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 1


Britten:

Albert Herring

Billy Budd

Owen Wingrave

Peter Grimes


Decca Collectors Edition - 4756020

(CD - 8 discs)

£46.49 (£39.57 ex. VAT)

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