The Voice of Peter Pears

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Label: Regis

Cat No: RRC1393

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 17th September 2012

Artists

Peter Pears
Benjamin Britten
Julian Bream

Works

Berkeley, Lennox

How Love came in

Bridge, Frank

Love went a-riding, H114

Britten, Benjamin

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35

Campion, Thomas

Shall I come, sweet love, to thee?

Copland, Aaron

Old American Songs Set 1

» III Long time ago

» IV Simple Gifts

» V I bought me a cat

Dowland, John

I saw my Ladye weepe
What if I never speed? (Third Book of Songs)

Ford, Thomas

Faire, sweet, cruell

Grainger, Percy

Six Dukes went a-Fishin'

It was a lover and his lass

Rosseter, Philip

What then is love but mourning?

Schubert, Franz

An die Laute, D905
Auf der Bruck, D853
Im Fruhling, D882
Schwanengesang, D957

» Die Taubenpost

Warlock, Peter

Yarmouth Fair

Artists

Peter Pears
Benjamin Britten
Julian Bream

About

This Regis disc celebrates the uniqueness of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive voices in collaborations with life-long musical partners Benjamin Britten and Julian Bream. The repertoire ranges from Dowland to Schubert to Britten, in addition to featuring twentieth century English composers and folksong settings by Grainger and Copland.

Contents:
1. Ford: Fair, sweet, cruel
2. Rosseter: What then but love is mourning
3. Dowland: I saw my lady weep
4. Morley: It was a lover and his lass
5. Campion: Shall I come sweet love
6. Dowland: What if I never speed
Peter Pears, Julian bream, first published 1956

7. Schubert: Im Fruhling, D882
8. Schubert: Auf der Bruck, D853
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published 1950

9. Schubert: An die laute D905
10. Schubert: Die Taubenpost D957 No.14
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published 1960

Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op.35
11. Oh my blacke soul
12. Batter my heart
13. O might those sighs and teares
14. Oh, to vex me
15. What if this present
16. Since she whom I loved
17. At the earth's imagined corners
18. Thou hast made me
19. Death, be not proud
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, recorded in 1947

20. Ireland: I have twelve oxon (anon.)
21. Moeran: In youth is pleasure (Wever)
22. Warlock: Yarmouth Fair (anon.)
23. L Berkeley: How love came in (Herrick)
24. Bridge: Love went a-riding (Mary Coleridge)
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, first published in 1956

Folksongs
25. arr. Britten: The Plough Boy
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, recorded in 1947

26. arr. Grainger: Six Dukes went a-fishin
27. arr. Copland: Long Time Ago
28. arr. Copland: Simple Gifts
29. arr. Copland: I bought me a cat
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten, recorded in 1950

‘The voice itself was unique and controversial........It was the way in which he used it which was genuinely beautiful, and his artistic insight into every work he studied is a model for those with ambitions to equal his stature’. - Gramophone

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