FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

Peter Pears: Anniversary Tribute

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4782345

Barcode: 0028947823452

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 17th May 2010

This product has now been deleted. Information is for reference only.

Artists

Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Noel Mewton-Wood (piano)
Joan Dickson (cello)
Julian Bream (lute)

Conductor

Bejamin Britten

Artists

Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
Noel Mewton-Wood (piano)
Joan Dickson (cello)
Julian Bream (lute)

Conductor

Bejamin Britten

About

The recorded legacy of the great English tenor Peter Pears is substantial and wide-ranging. It embraces Baroque repertory and Elizabethan songs as well as a vast amount of twentieth-century English music and German Lieder.

This anniversary collection features Pears in a wide selection of this repertory and it also charts his career as a recording artist, from landmark recordings such as the first recording of Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (made in 1944) through to Britten's Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus (composed in 1974), recorded near the end of his career in 1976.

Many recordings included here appear on CD for the first time as international releases. Performances of Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge and of Tippett’s Songs for Ariel, are of special interest and, in a different vein, Pears sings Lutoslawski’s Paroles tissées, which he commissioned.

A true rarity is the first ever release of Schubert's Ganymed.

Track Listing:
CD 1: Benjamin Britten
[1]-[8] Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op.31
Dennis Brain horn / Boyd Neel String Orchestra (1944 recording)
[9]-[15] Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op.22
[16] The Turn of the Screw, Op.54 - Act 1 - Variation VII • Scene 8 At Night - Miles!
[17] The Rape of Lucretia, Op.37 - Act 1 scene 1:Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart
[18] Canticle II Abraham and Isaac, Op.51
Peter Grimes, Op.33 - Act 1 scene 2
[19] Now the Great Bear and Pleiades…
[20] Old Joe has gone fishing…
[21] The bridge is down, we half swam over

CD 2: Benjamin Britten
[1] War Requiem, Op.66 - Dies irae: Move him into the sun
[2]-[7] Six Hölderlin Fragments, Op.61
[8] Billy Budd, Op.50 - Act 2: Epilogue, We committed his body to the deep
[9]-[17] The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35
[18] A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op.64 - Act 1: What now, my love?
[19] Albert Herring, Op.39 - Act 2 scene 2: Albert the Good!
[20] Owen Wingrave, Op.85 - Act 1 scene 7: May God bless the Queen
[21] Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus, Op.89
[22] Death in Venice, Op.88 - Act 1 scene 7: The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me

CD 3
Folksongs
[1] The foggy, foggy dew
[2] A brisk young widow
[3] O Waly, Waly
[4] Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse
[5] The plough boy

George Frideric Handel:
Acis and Galatea
[6] Lo! Here my love!…
[7] Love in her eyes sits playing

Lute songs
[8] Dowland: I saw my lady weep
[9] Rosseter: What then is love but mourning
[10] Pilkington: Rest, sweet nymphs
[11] Morley: It was a lover and his lass
[12] Dowland:In darkness let me dwell
Julian Bream (lute)

Henry Purcell:
The Fairy Queen - Part 1 – Oberon’s Birthday
[13] When a cruel long winter

Heinrich Schütz:
Matthäus-Passion, SWV 479
[14] Jesus aber stund für dem Landpflegers

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248
[15] No.41 Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244- Part Two
[16] No.62 Rezitativ: Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte des Landplegers
No.63 Choral: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
No.64 Rezitativ: Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten
(Recorded: Schloss Ludwigsburg, July 1964)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232:
[17] Benedictus
St John Passion, BWV 245: Part Two
[18] No.22 Recitative: Then they lead Jesus from Calaphas to the judgement hall

Edward Elgar:
The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38 - Part I
[19] Sanctis, fortis, Sanctus Deus

CD 4
Franz Schubert
[1] Ganymed, D544 (first ever release)
Winterreise, D911
[2] Gute Nacht
[3] Der Lindenbaum
[4] Frühlingstraum
[5] Der Leiermann
Die schöne Müllerin, D795
[6] Das Wandern
[7] Der Neugierige
[8] Der Jäger
[9] Die liebe Farbe

Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op.48
[10] Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
[11] Ich grolle nicht
[12] Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
[13] Die alten bösen Lieder
Szenen aus Goethes Faust - Zweite Abteilung
No.4 Ariel, Sonnenaufgang
[14] Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft’gen

Hector Berlioz
L’Enfance du Christ - Deuxième partie: La Fuite en Egypte
[15] Les pèlerins étant venus

Witold Lutoslawski
[16] Paroles tissées

CD 5 (all first international CD releases except the Tippett pieces)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
[1]-[6] On Wenlock Edge

Michael Tippett
[7]-[11] Boyhood’s End
[12]-[16] The Heart’s Assurance

Frederick Delius
[17] To Daffodils

E J Moeran
[18] The Merry Month of May

Bernard van Dieren
[19] Dream Pedlary
[20]

Michael Tippett
[21]-[23] Songs for Ariel

Alan Bush
[24]-[27]Voices of the Prophets, Op.41

CD 6
Peter Warlock
[1] Piggesnie
[2] Along the Stream

Percy Grainger
[3] Bold William Taylor

William Busch
[[4] The Echoing Green
[5] The Shepherd
[6] If thou wilt ease thine heart
[7] Come, o Come, my life’s delight

John Ireland
[8]-[13] The Land of Lost Content
[14] The Trellis

Frank Bridge
[15] ‘Tis but a week
[16] Goldenhair
[17] When you are old
[18] So perverse
[19] Journey’s End

Richard Rodney Bennett
[20] Tom O’Bedlams Song

John Ireland
[21] Love and Friendship
[22] Friendship in Misfortune
[23] The One Hope

Priaulx Rainier
[24]-[26] Cycle for Declamation