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2. Britten Conducts Britten [Box Set] (2006)
performed by Alexander Murray (flute), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Benjamin Britten (piano), Denis Blyth (tympani [timpani]), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Julius Katchen (piano), Mark Lubotsky (violin)
composed by Benjamin BrittenThis disc is essentially self-recommending: anyone -- and that means anyone -- with an interest in the orchestral music and song cycles of the great ... More
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3. Britten: War Requiem; Sinfonia da Requiem; Ballad of Heroes (1991)
performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (bass baritone), Martyn Hill (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Roderick Elms (organ), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), St. Paul's Cathedral Choristers (choir, chorus), Richard Hickox (conductor)
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4. Britten: War Requiem (1985)
performed by Benjamin Britten (spoken word), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Galina Vishnevskaya (spoken word), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), John Culshaw (spoken word), Melos Ensemble of London, Peter Pears (tenor), Peter Pears (spoken word)
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5. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; Nocturne; Phaedra (2004)
performed by Alan Fearon (tympani [timpani]), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Christina Rhys (harp), Colin Kellett (cor anglais), David Haslam (flute), Frank Lloyd (horn), Peter Francomb (horn), Philip Langridge (tenor), Robert Plane (clarinet), Stephen Reay (bassoon)
composed by Benjamin BrittenThis solid reissue, one of many that Naxos has salvaged from Collins Classics, presents three of Benjamin Britten's orchestral song cycles: the well ... More
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7. Britten: War Requiem (2005)
performed by Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Christine Brewer (soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone), London Philharmonic Choir (choir, chorus), Tiffin School Boys Choir (boy's choir), London Philharmonic Orchestra
composed by Benjamin BrittenKurt Masur had many competitors but only two real challengers in his 2005 recording of Britten's War Requiem: Britten's 1963 recording and his own ... More
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8. Britten: Winter Words (2011)
performed by Myra Huang (piano), Nicholas Phan (tenor)
composed by Benjamin BrittenAmerican tenor Nicholas Phan's first solo recital features two of Britten's most important song cycles and a handful of his folk song settings. ... More
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10. Britten: Songs
performed by Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
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11. Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, etc (2000)
performed by Ben Harrison (treble), Benedict Giles (treble), Iain Farrington (organ), Jonathan Bungard (tenor), Malcolm Green (bass), Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble), Reuben Thomas (bass), Richard Moore (alto), Simon Wall (tenor), William Goldring (treble)
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13. Britten: St. Nicolas; Christ's Nativity (2003)
performed by David Owen Norris (piano), Henry Manning (treble), Joseph Cullen (organ), Judith Harris (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Feaviour (soprano), Nicholas Elstob (treble), Philip Langridge (tenor), Rolf Hind (piano), Sebastian Stene (treble), Tom Jackman (treble)
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14. Britten: Ceremony of Carols (1995)
performed by Alexander Wells (piano), Anna Kenyon (alto), Catherine Hopper (vocals), Catherine Hopper (soprano), Cecilia Osmond (vocals), Emily Attree (soprano), Skaila Kanga (harp), New London Children's Choir (choir, chorus), Ronald Corp (conductor)
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15. Birtten: Choral Edition, Vol. 2 (1998)
performed by Andrew Lumsden (organ), Carys-Anne Lane (soprano), Finzi Singers, Kathryn Cook (alto), Lindsay Wagstaff (soprano), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Olive Simpson (soprano), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rachel Wheatley (soprano), Robert Burt (vocals)
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16. Britten: Cello Suites 1-3 (2000)
performed by Truls Mørk (cello)
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17. Britten: Simple Symphony; Temporal Variations; Suite on English Folk Tunes (2005)
performed by Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Philip Dukes (viola), Northern Sinfonia Chorus
composed by Benjamin BrittenList of all editionsWith this re-release of Britten's orchestral music, another wonderful volume of the late and lamented Collins Classics Britten series is back in ... More
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18. Britten: Spring Symphony; Five flower Songs; Hymn to St. Cecilia (1997)
performed by Alison Hagley (soprano), Catherine Robbin (contralto), Emma Preston-Dunlop (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Peter Mitchell (tenor), Richard Savage (bass), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus), Philharmonia Orchestra
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19. Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (1989)
performed by Benjamin Britten (piano), Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), David Bowman (vocals), David Kelly (vocals), David Reed (vocals), Delme Bryn-Jones (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Eric Garrett (vocals), Geoffrey Coleby (vocals)
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20. Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (1986)
performed by Francis Shepherd (treble), Gordon Jones (bass), James O'Donnell (organ), Jeremy Unwin (treble), Robert Holmes (treble), Robert Jones (counter tenor), Robert Ogden (treble), Simon Davies (tenor), Sioned Williams (harp)
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21. Britten: Double Concerto; Sinfonietta; Young Apollo; 2 Portraits (1999)
performed by Dara de Cogan (violin), Gidon Kremer (violin), Lyn Fletcher (violin), Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Peter Worrall (cello), Tim Pooley (viola), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
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23. Britten: War Requiem (2012)
performed by Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sabina Cvilak (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Choir of Eltham College (boy's choir), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
composed by Benjamin BrittenList of all editionsWhen Gianandrea Noseda brought the forces assembled here for this live recording of Britten's War Requiem to New York's Avery Fisher Hall in October ... More
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24. Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (1985)
performed by Claire Watson (soprano), David Kelly (bass), Geraint Evans (baritone), James Pease (vocals), Jean Watson (vocals), John Lanigan (tenor), Lauris Elms (vocals), Marion Studholme (soprano), Owen Brannigan (bass), Peter Pears (tenor), Raymond Nilsson (tenor)
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25. Britten: Choral Works (2004)
performed by Anthony Sackville (treble), Christopher Anderson (treble), David Corkhill (percussion), Ian Hare (organ), James Bowman (counter tenor), James Clark (treble), James Lancelot (organ), Julian Brown (treble), Julian Godlee (treble), Marcus Creed (bass)
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