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Britten - Albert Herring | Nimbus NI5824

Britten - Albert Herring

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI5824

Barcode: 0710357582424

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 26th May 2008

Penguin Guide 4 stars Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Joan Cross
Margaret Ritchie
Gladys Parr
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
Basil Coleman (director)

Conductor

Benjamin Britten

Works

Britten, Benjamin

Albert Herring, op.39

Artists

Joan Cross
Margaret Ritchie
Gladys Parr
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
Basil Coleman (director)

Conductor

Benjamin Britten

About

Albert Herring: A Comic Opera in Three Acts

Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Eric Crozier

Basil Coleman, Director
The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten, conductor
First Performance: Glyndebourne, 20 June 1947
This Performance: The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen - September 15, 1949

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.

Lady Billows an elderly autocrat - Joan Cross*
Florence Pike her housekeeper - Gladys Parr*
Miss Wordsworth Head Teacher at the School - Margaret Ritchie*
Mr. Gedge the Vicar - Otakar Kraus
Mr. Upfold the Mayor - Roy Ashton*
Superintendent Budd - Norman Lumsden*
Sid butcher’s shophand - Denis Dowling
Albert Herring from the greengrocer’s - Peter Pears*
Nancy from the bakery - Nancy Evans*
Mrs Herring Albert’s mother - Catherine Lawson
Emmie - Anne Sharp*
Cis - Elisabeth Parry
Harry - Alan Thompson

* singers in the Glyndebourne premiere

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