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Benjamin Britten: In Rehearsal & Performance with Peter Pears | VAI DVDVAI4277

Benjamin Britten: In Rehearsal & Performance with Peter Pears

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Label: VAI

Cat No: DVDVAI4277

Barcode: 0089948427797

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Contents

Works

Britten
Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obbligato Instruments & Strings, Op.60

Artists

Peter Pears (tenor)
CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Benjamin Britten

Works

Britten
Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obbligato Instruments & Strings, Op.60

Artists

Peter Pears (tenor)
CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Benjamin Britten

About

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) has been dubbed "The Greatest Musician of the Century" by the New York Times. This program, the first complete performance video available of the composer/conductor, provides a fascinating look at Britten’s skills as an interpreter of his own music. The video is especially valuable as a document of the legendary artistic collaboration between Britten and his longtime companion Peter Pears, the tenor for whom most of his vocal music was written.

Bonus segments feature Britten in a 1968 interview for Canadian television, and Pears singing two Elizabethan songs with Julian Bream, lute.

Contents:
I Rehearsal (With commentary by Peter Pears) [32:20]
II Performance [24:48]

Nocturne for Tenor, 7 Obbligato Instruments & Strings, Op.60 to texts by various English poets:
1) Very slow and soft - On a poet’s lips I slept
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
2) Majestic - Below the thunders of the upper deep
 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3) Slow Waltz - Encinctured with a twine of leaves
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4) As the Start - Midnight’s bell goes ting, ting, ting
 Thomas Middleton
5) Steady March - But that night / When on my bed I lay
 William Wordsworth
6) Slow and Regular - She sleeps on soft, last breaths
 Wilfred Owen
7) Quick - What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
 John Keats
8) Slow - When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
 William Shakespeare: Sonnet XLIII

1962, 74 minutes (including Bonus segments), black & white.

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