Owen Wingrave ; Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo / Britten.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin composer, conductor, performer.
Format Audio (CD)
PublicationLondon : London, [1993]
Copyright Date℗1993
Description2 audio discs (134 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorPiper, Myfanwy, librettist.
Other author/creatorHölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843, lyricist.
Other author/creatorPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837, lyricist.
Other author/creatorLuxon, Benjamin, performer.
Other author/creatorShirley-Quirk, John, performer.
Other author/creatorDouglas, Nigel, performer.
Other author/creatorFisher, Sylvia, 1910-1996, performer.
Other author/creatorHarper, Heather, performer.
Other author/creatorVyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974, performer.
Other author/creatorBaker, Janet, 1933- performer.
Other author/creatorPears, Peter, 1910-1986, narrator, performer.
Other author/creatorBrett, Philip, editor.
Other author/creatorVishnevskai͡a︡, Galina, 1926-2012, performer.
Other author/creatorRostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007, performer.
Included WorkBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente.
Included WorkBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Ėkho poėta.
Other author/creatorWandsworth School. Boys' Choir, performer.
Other author/creatorEnglish Chamber Orchestra, performer.
Variant title Hölderlin fragments
Variant title Poet's echo
Contents CD 1. Owen Wingrave: Act one -- CD 2. Owen Wingrave: Act two -- Six Hölderlin fragments -- The poet's echo.
Contents Disc 1. Owen Wingrave. Act one. Prelude (2:59) -- You've got your maps there? (Coyle) (12:36) -- At last it's out (Owen) (6:19) -- Your sherry, Mrs Coyle (Lechmere) (11:23) -- Oh, how unforeseen (Mrs Julian) (10:25) -- Sirrah! How dare you! (Sir Philip Wingrave) (4:03) -- Coyle, I wish I had not come (Mrs Coyle) (7:01) -- May God bless the Queen (Sir Philip Wingrave) (8:22).
Contents Disc 2. Owen Wingrave (cont'd). Act two. There was a boy, a Wingrave born (The narrator) (6:53) -- I envy you this fine old house (Lechmere) (2:37) -- 'Paramore shall welcome woe!' (Coyle) (7:03) -- "And with his friend young Lechmere played..." (Owen) (4:38) -- Now you may save your scornful looks (Owen) (5:38) -- Ah, Owen, what shall I do? (Kate) (7:41) -- Is that you, Coyle? (Mrs Coyle) (2:58) -- Come in... It's me, Lechmere (Coyle, Lechmere) (5:00) -- Six Hölderlin Fragments. Menschenbeifall (The approval of man) (1:21) -- Die Heimat (Homeland) (1:55) -- Sokrates und Alcibiades (Socrates and Alcibiades) (2:16) -- Die Jugend (Youth) (1:48) -- Hälfte des Lebens (The middle of life) (2:00) -- Die Linien des Lebens (The lines of life) (2:24) -- The Poet's Echo. Ekho (Echo) (2:40) -- Ya dumal, serdtse pozabilo... (My heart, I thought you had forgotten...) (1:40) -- Angel (The angel) (2:14) -- Solovyei i roza (The nightingale and the rose) (4:31) -- Epigramma (Epigram) (0:45) -- Stikhi, sochinyonniye nochyu vo vremya bessonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night) (4:17).
General noteThe 1st work an opera in 2 acts; the 2nd-3rd works song cycles.
General noteLibretto of the 1st work by Myfanwy Piper ; text of the 2nd work from poems by Friedrich Hölderlin ; text of the 3rd work from poems by Alexander Pushkin.
General noteEditions recorded: Faber Music Ltd. (1st and 3rd works); Boosey & Hawkes (2nd work).
General noteCompact discs.
General noteProgram notes by Philip Brett in English, French, German, and Italian, libretto and song texts with English translations (76 pages) laid in container.
Performer In the 1st work: Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley-Quirk, baritones ; Nigel Douglas, tenor ; Sylvia Fisher, Heather Harper, Jennifer Vyvyan, sopranos ; Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano ; Peter Pears, tenor, narrator ; Wandsworth School Boys' Choir ; English Chamber Orchestra ; the composer, conductor. In the 2nd work: Peter Pears, tenor ; Benjamin Britten, piano. In the 3rd work: Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano ; Mstislav Rostropovich, piano.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded: December 1970 (1st work); November 1961 (2nd work) at Kingsway Hall, London; and, July 1968, at the Maltings, Snape (3rd work).
LanguageSung in English, German, or Russian (respectively).
UPC 028943320023
Publisher number433 200-2 London (set)
Publisher number433 201-2 London (disc 1)
Publisher number433 202-2 London (disc 2)
Publisher numberBA 927 London (on container)

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