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Benjamin Britten: The Complete Orchestral Song Cycles

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from: Collins

Release Date March 28, 1995

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Britten: Orchestral Song Cycles

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from: Collins Classics

Release Date March 13, 1996

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Britten conducts Britten Vol.4

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by: Benjamin Britten

Release Date November 13, 2006
A further instalment in Decca's re-release of Britten conducting his own work. This box set covers orchestral performances and song cycles and the performances are unique; Britten was the definitive conductor of his own work and one of the best accompanists of all time. The partnership between Britten and Pears in the tenor song cycles is almost psychic but there are good things here from Dietrich Fischer Dieskau too. Amazon offer this 7CD set at exceptional value - I paid about [...] a disc. And - put out the flags - the accompanying booklet contains the words of the songs and translations, unlike the previous volumes in this set.

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Britten: Serenade/Les Illuminations

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from: London

Release Date June 08, 1993
A wonderful cd, specially for the excellent intervencion of Peter Pears in a great artistic and vocal state. Pears was a tenor without a magnificence voice but for this repertoire his refined manners and musicallity are in common sense with the the Britten works, and not properly with the vocal line ,specially designed for him, than with his spirit. Pears and Brtitten, had been a good partneships with this too.Perhaps Pears sings more brilliant than Brittten conducts. One cd that I have no doubt to recommend. The recording was made around 50 years ago, but we can understand everithing.

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Italia Mia/Verzauberter Klang Als Germany

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by: Mantovani and His Orchestra

Release Date March 09, 2003
A wonderful cd, specially for the excellent intervencion of Peter Pears in a great artistic and vocal state. Pears was a tenor without a magnificence voice but for this repertoire his refined manners and musicallity are in common sense with the the Britten works, and not properly with the vocal line ,specially designed for him, than with his spirit. Pears and Brtitten, had been a good partneships with this too.Perhaps Pears sings more brilliant than Brittten conducts. One cd that I have no doubt to recommend. The recording was made around 50 years ago, but we can understand everithing.

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From Here To Eternity

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by: Uli Jon Roth

Release Date December 11, 2000
Documents part of the evolution of this amazing musician. Ulrich's tasteful choice of notes is something I've come to expect from him!

This guy's playing speaks to me, and I'd be giving him four stars were it not for the use of vocals throughout much of this.

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Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder / 4 Orchestral Songs

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from: Sony

Release Date July 13, 1993
Documents part of the evolution of this amazing musician. Ulrich's tasteful choice of notes is something I've come to expect from him!

This guy's playing speaks to me, and I'd be giving him four stars were it not for the use of vocals throughout much of this.

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Harvest Home: Music for All Seasons [CASSETTE]

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by: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

Release Date September 14, 1999
Documents part of the evolution of this amazing musician. Ulrich's tasteful choice of notes is something I've come to expect from him!

This guy's playing speaks to me, and I'd be giving him four stars were it not for the use of vocals throughout much of this.

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Harvest Home: Music for All Seasons

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by: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

Release Date September 14, 1999
Documents part of the evolution of this amazing musician. Ulrich's tasteful choice of notes is something I've come to expect from him!

This guy's playing speaks to me, and I'd be giving him four stars were it not for the use of vocals throughout much of this.

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Ravel - Chansons Madecasses

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from: EMI Classics

Release Date April 03, 2000
After a series of recordings including "Paris" and the Mozart flute concertos, Emmanuel Pahud has gained renown for the delicacy and silkiness of his tone. Consequently it was something of a surprise for me when i listened to this collection, in which Pahud is clearly exploring the darker sonorities of his instrument. The repertoire itself - including Debussy's Syrinx and an arrangement of his Billitis suite, Ravel's Chansons Madecasses and Prokofiev's flute sonata - is on the whole characterised by bleak, sinister, and often violent expression.

The really pleasurable and exciting thing about this recording is the way he draws out these sinister elements from the mentioned repertoire with a sense of poise and balance ... Read More: