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Peter Pears, Marion Studholme, Iris Kells, Raymond Nilsson, James Pease, Jean Watson, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Benjamin Britten

Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"

Peter Pears, Marion Studholme, Iris Kells, Raymond Nilsson, James Pease, Jean Watson, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Benjamin Britten

Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute

3 MINUTES AND 41 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Prologue
01:12
2
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Pastoral
03:54
3
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Nocturne
03:17
4
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Elegy
04:19
5
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Dirge
04:11
6
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Hymn
01:59
7
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Sonnet
04:02
8
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op. 31: Epilogue
01:21
9
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XVI
02:03
10
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXI
01:27
11
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXX
03:21
12
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto LV
01:51
13
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXVIII
01:57
14
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXII
01:25
15
Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXIV
04:57
16
Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54 / Act One: Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night
10:24
17
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37 / Act 1: "Rome Is Now Ruled By the Etruscan Upstart"
02:41
18
Britten: Canticle II, Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51
16:19
19
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
03:41
20
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "Old Joe Has Gone Fishing"
02:28
21
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "The Bridge Is Down, We Half Swam Over"
01:36
22
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies irae: 2i. Move Him into the Sun
04:52
23
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 1. Menschenbeifall
01:21
24
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 2. Die Heimat
01:56
25
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades
02:18
26
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 4. Die Jugend
01:50
27
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 5. Hälfte des Lebens
02:02
28
Britten: 6 Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61: 6. Die Linien des Lebens
02:25
29
Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50 / Act 2: "We Committed His Body To the Deep"
04:39
30
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 1. Oh, My Blacke Soule!
03:20
31
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 2. Batter My Heart
01:21
32
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 3. Oh Might Those Sighes and Teares
03:00
33
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 4. Oh, To Vex Me
01:09
34
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 5. What If This Present
02:51
35
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 6. Since She Whom I Loved
03:28
36
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 7. At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
02:34
37
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 8. Thou Hast Made Me
01:32
38
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: 9. Death, Be Not Proud
03:57
39
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "How Now My Love?"
04:38
40
Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39 / Act 2: "Albert The Good!"
07:30
41
Britten: Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 / Act 1: "May God bless the Queen"
08:23
42
Britten: Canticle V - The Death of Saint Narcissus, Op. 89
07:20
43
Britten: Death in Venice, Op. 88 / Act 1: "The Boy, Tadzio, Shall Inspire Me"
04:28
44
Traditional: The Foggy Foggy Dew
02:34
45
Traditional: A Brisk Young Widow
02:02
46
Traditional: O Waly Waly
03:34
47
Traditional: Le Roi s'en va-t'en chasse
02:13
48
Traditional: The Plough Boy
01:59
49
Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 / Act I: Lo! Here my love!
00:35
50
Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 / Act I: Love in her eyes sits playing
06:06
51
Dowland: I saw my Lady weep
04:15
52
Rosseter: What then is love but mourning
02:53
53
Pilkington: Rest Sweet Nymphs
04:32
54
Morley: It was a lover and his lasse
02:31
55
Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
04:50
56
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z.629 - Ed. Britten, Holst, Pears / Act 1: "When a Cruel Long Winter"
02:48
57
Schütz: Matthäus Passion: Jesus aber stund für dem Landpleger
06:06
58
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 4: No. 41 Aria "Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben"
05:14
59
J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 53, Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte - No. 54, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden - No. 55, Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten
05:35
60
J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 / Sanctus: Benedictus
04:54
61
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 / Part Two: "Then Led They Jesus From Caiaphas To the Judgement"
04:56
62
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 / Part 1: "Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Deus"
10:38
63
Schubert: Ganymed, D. 544 (Op.19/3) (1968 Version)
04:19
64
Schubert: Winterreise, D.911: 1. Gute Nacht
05:50
65
Schubert: Winterreise, D.911: 5. Der Lindenbaum
05:08
66
Schubert: Winterreise, D.911: 11. Frühlingstraum
04:38
67
Schubert: Winterreise, D.911: 24. Der Leiermann
03:14
68
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795: 1. Das Wandern
02:27
69
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795: 6. Der Neugierige
04:20
70
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795: 14. Der Jäger
01:18
71
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D.795: 16. Die liebe Farbe
04:00
72
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: 1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
01:37
73
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: 7. Ich grolle nicht
01:44
74
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: 13. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
02:11
75
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: 16. Die alten, bösen Lieder
04:27
76
Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes 'Faust' für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester - Zweite Abteilung (Part Two): Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft'gem Kreise
10:49
77
Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op.25 / Partie 2: La fuite en Egypte: Les pèlerins étant venus
06:53
78
Lutosławski: Paroles Tissées
15:13
79
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: On Wenlock Edge
03:23
80
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: From Far, From Eve And Morning
02:16
81
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: Is My Team Ploughing?
03:43
82
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: Oh, When I Was In Love With You
00:43
83
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill
06:47
84
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge: Clun
03:29
85
Tippett: Boyhood's End: What, then did I want? What did I ask to have?
01:36
86
Tippett: Boyhood's End: To rise each morning and to look out on the sky...
02:54
87
Tippett: Boyhood's End: To climb trees and put my hand down in the deep hot nest of the Bienteveo...
03:38
88
Tippett: Boyhood's End: To ride at noon on the hottest days...
01:10
89
Tippett: Boyhood's End: To lie on my back on the rust-brown grass in January
02:36
90
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance: 1. Song
02:44
91
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance: 2. The Heart's Assurance
02:10
92
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance: 3. Compassion
04:21
93
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance: 4. The Dancer
02:04
94
Tippett: The Heart's Assurance: 5. Remember your Lovers
06:18
95
Delius: To Daffodils
02:21
96
Moeran: The Merry Month of May
01:52
97
Van Dieren: Dream Pedlary
02:24
98
Van Dieren: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
02:18
99
Tippett: Songs for Ariel: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
01:41
100
Tippett: Songs for Ariel: Full Fathom Five
01:32
101
Tippett: Songs for Ariel: Where The Bee Sucks
00:58
102
Bush: Voices of the Prophets - Words from Isaiah, Milton, Blake, Peter Blackman: For Behold, I Create A New Heaven And A New Earth
03:32
103
Bush: Voices of the Prophets - Words from Isaiah, Milton, Blake, Peter Blackman: So At Length The Spirit Of Man Will Reach Out
04:39
104
Bush: Voices of the Prophets - Words from Isaiah, Milton, Blake, Peter Blackman: Rouse Up
01:00
105
Bush: Voices of the Prophets - Words from Isaiah, Milton, Blake, Peter Blackman: Over The Years I Hear Strong Voices Rise
08:43
106
Warlock: Piggesnie
00:56
107
Warlock: Along The Stream
02:27
108
Grainger: Bold William Taylor
03:42
109
Busch: The Echoing Green
01:51
110
Busch: The Shepherd
01:32
111
Busch: If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart
03:04
112
Busch: Come, O Come, My Life's Delight
01:31
113
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: The Lent Lily
02:22
114
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: Ladslove
02:17
115
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: Goal & Wicket
01:05
116
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: The Vain Desire
01:56
117
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: The Encounter
01:07
118
Ireland: The Land of Lost Content: Epilogue
01:38
119
Ireland: The Trellis
02:42
120
Bridge: 'Tis But A Week
01:44
121
Bridge: Goldenhair
01:33
122
Bridge: When You Are Old
03:37
123
Bridge: So Perverse
01:16
124
Bridge: Journey's End
03:13
125
Richard Rodney Bennett: Tom O'Bedlam's Song
09:27
126
Ireland: Love And Friendship
01:50
127
Ireland: Friendship In Misfortune
01:43
128
Ireland: The One Hope
03:36
129
Rainier: Cycle for Declamation: Wee Cannot Bid The Fruits
02:11
130
Rainier: Cycle for Declamation: In The Wombe Of The Earth
01:53
131
Rainier: Cycle for Declamation: Nunc, lento sonitu
04:19
Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute
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Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
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