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The Britten-Pears Collection | Deutsche Grammophon 0743366

The Britten-Pears Collection

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 0743366

Barcode: 0044007433669

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 7

Release Date: 7th June 2010

Contents

Works

Britten
Peter Grimes, Op.33

Britten
Billy Budd, Op.50

Britten
Owen Wingrave, Op.85

Britten
"Music Now" (excerpts)

Gay/Britten
The Beggar’s Opera

Schubert
Winterreise, D.911

Mozart
Idomeneo, re di Creta, K.366 (English Version)




Artists

Benjamin Britten
Peter Pears

Works

Britten
Peter Grimes, Op.33

Britten
Billy Budd, Op.50

Britten
Owen Wingrave, Op.85

Britten
"Music Now" (excerpts)

Gay/Britten
The Beggar’s Opera

Schubert
Winterreise, D.911

Mozart
Idomeneo, re di Creta, K.366 (English Version)




Artists

Benjamin Britten
Peter Pears

About

These are historic 60s & 70s BBC films, long locked away in the BBC archive. When released on DVD in 2008 and 2009, this was their very first availability to the consumer. They have been carefully restored by the BBC Restoration Unit, so are in the best possible visual and audio condition.

They include several key and unique performances of Peter Pears which were not filmed anywhere else (notably as Grimes, and also as Captain Vere in Billy Budd).

The Owen Wingrave was the original version of this 'written for TV' opera, and so definitive in respecting the composer's wishes.

The legendary black-and-white film of Billy Budd was long thought to be lost, until Decca unearthed an error in the BBC Tape Library entry. The Billy Budd was one of the three Gramophone DVD nominations in 2009.

Contents:
DVD 1:
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes, Op.33
Peter Pears, Bryan Drake, David Bowman, Michael Rippon, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Anne Pashley, Jill Gomez, Robert Tear, Owen Brannigan, Heather Harper, Ann Robson
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra / Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 2:22:28

DVD 2:
Benjamin Britten
Billy Budd, Op.50
Peter Pears, Eric Garrett, Nigel Rogers, David Kelly, Michael Langdon, Robert Tear, Peter Glossop, Dennis Wicks, John Shirley-Quirk
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra / Charles Mackerras

Total Playing Time: 2:38:00

DVD 3:
Benjamin Britten
Owen Wingrave, Op.85
Peter Pears, Jennifer Vyvyan, Nigel Douglas, Benjamin Luxon, Heather Harper, Janet Baker
English Chamber Orchestra / Benjamin Britten

Extracts from "Music Now"
28. The place is Snape, in Suffolk...
John Amis
29. Colin, would it be possible for you to tell us...
John Amis, Colin Graham, Myfanwy Piper
30. Peter, you're multi-parted in this new opera...
John Amis, Peter Pears
31. Ben, what was it that first attracted you to the story...
John Culshaw, Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 2:01:16

DVD 4:
John Gay
The Beggar's Opera, realised by Benjamin Britten
Bernard Dickerson, Anna Pollak, Joan Edwards, David Kelly, Carolyn Maia, Kenneth McKellar, Roger Jerome, Bryan Drake, Edith Coates, Janet Baker, Heather Harper
English Chamber Orchestra / Meredith Davies

Total Playing Time: 1:21:57

DVD 5/6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo, re di Creta, K.366 (English Version)
Peter Pears, Rae Woodland, Heather Harper, Anne Pashley, Robert Tear, Anthony Williams
English Opera Chorus
English Chamber Orchestra / Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 1:37:36 / 1:06:02

DVD 7:
Franz Schubert
- Winterreise, D.911
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten

Henry Purcell
The Mock Marriage
-  Man is for the woman made (Arr. Britten)

Traditional
- The Foggy Foggy Dew
- O Waly Waly
- Sweet Polly Oliver
- Sally In Our Alley

Charles Dibdin
- Tom Bowling

Traditional
- The Lincolnshire Poacher
- The Plough Boy
- Oliver Cromwell

Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss Winterreise
- Frühlingstraum
- Im Dorfe
- Der Leiermann
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten

Total Playing Time: 1:59:35

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