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Folk Songs of the British Isles (Arr. Britten)

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Folk Songs of the British Isles (Arr. Britten)

Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747250724
Catnr: CRC 2507
Release date: 21 June 2005
1 CD
 
Label
Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC
0044747250724
Catalogue number
CRC 2507
Release date
21 June 2005
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Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with...
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Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.

Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.


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01.
8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 3. Lemady
01:26
02.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles': No. 6. The Ash Grove
03:20
03.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles': No. 2. Little Sir William
03:01
04.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4: No. 5. At the mid hour of night
03:11
05.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6, 'England': No. 2. Sailor-Boy
02:03
06.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4: No. 2. Sail on, sail on
02:27
07.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, 'British Isles': No. 6. O Waly, Waly
03:43
08.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, 'British Isles': No. 2. There's none to soothe
01:49
09.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles': No. 5. The trees they grow so high
03:14
10.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4: No. 4. The minstrel boy
02:20
11.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, 'British Isles': No. 7. Come you not from Newcastle?
01:14
12.
8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 8. Bird Scarer's Song
01:02
13.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, 'British Isles': No. 5. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
02:11
14.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles': No. 1. The Salley Gardens
02:46
15.
8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 2. She's like the swallow
02:49
16.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4: No. 8. Oft in the stilly night
03:06
17.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6, 'England': No. 4. The Soldier and the Sailor
02:23
18.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles': No. 7. Oliver Cromwell
00:49
19.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6, 'England': No. 1. I will give my love an apple
01:38
20.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, 'British Isles': No. 4. Early one morning
03:08
21.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6, 'England': No. 3. Master Kilby
02:01
22.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6, 'England': No. 5. Bonny at Morn
03:50
23.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, 'Moore's Irish Melodies': No. 9. The Last Rose of Summer
03:58
24.
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, 'Moore's Irish Melodies': No. 7. Dear harp of my country!
02:45
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