The Operas of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)      The Operas of Benj...      Britten: Paul Bunyan Benjamin Allen, James Bohn, ... EMI Classics Imports, 2003             Noye's Fludde / Golden Vanity Britten, Wadsworth School Polygram Int'l, 1993 Excellent performances of Britten's music + A good introduction to Britten's children's music This audio CD includes two works by the composer Benjamin Britten, the opera Noye's Fludde and the work for boy's choir The Golden Vanity. The CD itself comes with an excellent, informative booklet with full librettos of both Noye's Fludde and The Golden Vanity. This is particularly useful in ...             Britten - The Turn of the Screw / Sir Colin Davis Benjamin Britten, Colin Davis, ... Polygram Int'l, 2003 a must + It is a curious story... Colin Davies faced a big challenge: recording an opera which we know in the version of its composer. He comes away with flying colours. Particularly in such a difficult piece where a whole musical universe must be created with only 14 instruments! This version has nothing to envy the original ...             Little Sweep & Rejoice In The Lamb Philip Ledger EMI Classics Imports, 2000             Britten - Death in Venice / Peter Pears · John Shirley-Quirk · James Bowman · Kenneth Bowen · Stuart Bedford Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, ... Polygram Records, 1990 One of the best operas by Britten + Great peformance of underrated Britten opera This is a must have for any Britten or 20th Century Music admirers. As you know, this opera is based on short story (in same name) by Thomas Mann. Libretto was written by Myfanwy Piper (Britten's close friend and librettist as well as "The Turn of the Screw") "Death in Venice" is a 2 act (17 ...             Britten: Billy Budd Benjamin Britten, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, ... Video Artists Int'l, 1995 A unique chance to hear the very first cast of Billy Budd + A great historical moment, if you don't mind the pirate sonics The technical flaws of this unique recording are outweighed indeed by the magic and beauty of this performance by the original cast, conducted by Britten himself. The technical flaws (reputed to be due to the fact that the source of this CD is a amateur-recording of a 1951 performance of this ...             Albert Herring Britten, Gilchrist, ... Chandos, 2003 A adequete performance that never quite catches fire. Albert Herring has had the good luck to be recorded four times without a serious failure among the sets. The best of the lot by a slim margin is the one conducted by Britten himself (Britten: Albert Herring), followed closly by that lead by Stuart Bedford (Albert Herring). Both of these sets have a ...             Britten: Paul Bunyan / Coleman-Wright, Cranham, Streit, Gritton, Robinson, Watosn; Hickox Benjamin Britten, Richard Hickox, ... Chandos, 2000 Britten's virtually lost American masterpiece. There was much concern in the early decades of the 20th century with the creation of a genuinely American opera, a national music drama that would fuse native forms with the operatic modes laid down in Europe. The most celebrateed effort is Gershwin's 'Porgy And Bess'. But in Europe, composers ...             Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream / McNair, Asawa, Lloyd, Bostridge, Ainsley, Summers, Watson, Sir Colin ... Benjamin Britten, Sir Colin Davis, ... Philips, 1996 A Beautiful Opera, and Quite a Few Beautiful Voices + A very good recording in a field with two great ones + As Magical as Shakespeare's Play Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a work of genious even if it is not exactly melodic. It poses beautiful and intellectually stimulating harmonies and parts for pretty much all different voice parts (and I mean that when I say it; with the leads being countertenor, coloratura, and baritone ...             Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; Phaedra Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, ... Polygram Records, 2003 DREADFUL LIBRETTO: GREAT OPERA Lucretia is probably the worst libretto Britten ever set. Its awkward combination of the classical with the Christian, the slips into dated vernacular or the high-flown and pretentiously poetic, all conspire to set it on a level with Tippett at his most embarrassing. Was the composer just not ...             Britten - Billy Budd / Keenlyside · Langridge · John Tomlinson · LSO · Hickox Benjamin Britten, Richard Hickox, ... Chandos, 2000 Powerful Operatic Tale of Good and Evil + A fine recording of Britten's fine opera + Quite good performance -- but still my fourth choice Britten - Billy Budd Benjamin Britten consistently proved himself an operatic and dramatic genius. There are few canons in the history of opera that engage as highly on an emotional and intellectual level as Britten's operas, and certainly no other comparable canon in English. Britten consistently ...             Britten: Holy Sonnets, Billy Budd, etc. / Britten, Glossop, Pears, et al Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Luxon, ... Decca, 1989 TAKING OUR SALVATION ANY WAY IT COMES + NOT SO MUCH BILLY BUDD, MORE EDWARD FAIRFAX VERE + A Great Performance By the Composer The strained economic situation of the classical music industry is working in many ways to our advantage as consumers. Britten's settings of Blake and Donne would never have been issued bundled together with Billy Budd in the vinyl era I'm quite sure. These days if we don't think one follows on ...             Britten: The Turn of the Screw Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, ... Naxos, 2004 Better Than the Composer's Own Recording! + excellent and terrific opera I didn't think I'd ever say this about a Britten opera recording, but we have here a modern performance that surpasses the one Britten conducted and recorded back in the 1950s. In every respect this is superior to the earlier album, with one exception: no one can surpass Peter Pears as the evil ...             Britten: Curlew River Britten, Peter Pears, ... Polygram Int'l, 2003 A definitive performance + Church Parable I There are not many other "operas" like this one. In this work, Britten mixed elements of Japanese Noh theater and medieval morality play. The opera is to be performed in a church, without a conductor, and the characters' bodily gestures are choreographed in detail and must correspond closely to the ...             Britten: Gloriana Benjamin Britten, Charles Mackerras, ... Polygram Records, 1993 Excellent + A masterpiece This is an excellent production of this rarely performed and rarely recorded work. It displays many of the features of Britten's best work. The music is often lovely and features Britten's particular ability to set english language texts to music. The music is informed by Britten's ability to ...          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web we recommend A unique chance to hear the very first cast of Billy Budd randomly chosen book: When I'm Big: A Guess How Much I Love You Storybook (Guess How Much I Love ...