British Composers: Benjamin Britten / Edmund Rubbra / Lennox Berkeley / Michael Heming

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Britten, Scenes from the opera Peter Grimes; Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; The Rape of Lucretia [abridged version]; Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Prelude and Fugue for Eighteen-Part String Orchestra. Rubbra, Symphony No.5; Loth to Depart; Piano Concerto. Berkeley, Horn Trio; Six Preludes; Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila; Three Greek Songs; Five Poems by W.H. Auden; I Sing of a Maiden; The Lord is My Shepherd. Heming [arr. Collins], Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action. (Vocal soloists: Joan Cross, Pamela Bowden, Nancy Evens, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley. Instrumental soloists: Theo Olof, Manoug Parikian [violin]; Jacques Abram, Benjamin Britten, Colin Horsley, Ernest Lush, Denis Matthews [piano]; Dennis Brain [horn]. British choruses and orchestras conducted by John Barbirolli, Norman Del Mar, Reginald Goodall, Herbert Menges, John Minchinton and Malcolm Sargent. Total time: 361') read more