| Other author/creator | Piper, Myfanwy, librettist. |
| Other author/creator | Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843, lyricist. |
| Other author/creator | Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837, lyricist. |
| Other author/creator | Luxon, Benjamin, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Shirley-Quirk, John, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Douglas, Nigel, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Fisher, Sylvia, 1910-1996, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Harper, Heather, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Vyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Baker, Janet, 1933- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, narrator, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Brett, Philip, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Vishnevskai͡a︡, Galina, 1926-2012, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007, performer. |
| Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Hölderlin Fragmente. |
| Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Ėkho poėta. |
| Other author/creator | Wandsworth School. Boys' Choir, performer. |
| Other author/creator | English 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 note | The 1st work an opera in 2 acts; the 2nd-3rd works song cycles. |
| General note | Libretto 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 note | Editions recorded: Faber Music Ltd. (1st and 3rd works); Boosey & Hawkes (2nd work). |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Program 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 note | Recorded: December 1970 (1st work); November 1961 (2nd work) at Kingsway Hall, London; and, July 1968, at the Maltings, Snape (3rd work). |
| Language | Sung in English, German, or Russian (respectively). |
| UPC |
028943320023 |
| Publisher number | 433 200-2 London (set) |
| Publisher number | 433 201-2 London (disc 1) |
| Publisher number | 433 202-2 London (disc 2) |
| Publisher number | BA 927 London (on container) |