Catalogue # 4782345

ARTISTS

Peter Pears, tenor Benjamin Britten, piano and conductor Others including: Noel Mewton-Wood, piano Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano Dennis Brain, horn Janet Baker, alto Karl Münchinger, conductor

TRACK LISTING

Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31 [BRITTEN: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22 [1940] BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw, op. 54: Miles! Miles! Miles!
BRITTEN: The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart BRITTEN: Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, op. 51 (Chester Miracle Play) BRITTEN: Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II, Scene 2 BRITTEN: War Requiem, op. 66 – Dies irae: Move him into the sun BRITTEN: Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, op. 61 BRITTEN: Billy Budd, op. 50 – Act 2, Epilogue: We committed his body to the deep BRITTEN: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35 BRITTEN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64, Act I: How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? BRITTEN: Albert Herring, op. 39 – Act II, Scene 2: Albert the Good! Long may he reign BRITTEN: Owen Wingrave, op. 85 – Act I, Scene 7: May God bless the Queen 8:22 BRITTEN: Canticle V: The Death of St Narcissus, op. 89 BRITTEN: Death in Venice, op. 88 – Act I, Scene 7: The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me BRITTEN: Folksong settings HANDEL: Acis and Galatea: Lo! Here my love! turn, Galatea, hither turn thy eyes/ Love in her eyes sits playing
John Dowland: I saw my lady weep JOHN DOWLAND: What then is love but mourning (Anon.) 2:49 Francis Pilkington: Rest, sweet nymphs Thomas Morley: It was a lover and his lass John Dowland: In darkness let me dwell Purcell: “When a cruel long winter has frozen the earth” from The Fairy Queen Schütz: “Jesus aber stund für dem Landpfleger” from Matthäus-Passion BACH: “Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben” from Christmas Oratorio BACH: Matthäus-Passion (selections) BACH: “Benedictus” from Mass in B minor BACH: St John Passion (selections) ELGAR: “Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, de profundis oro te” from The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 SCHUBERT: Ganymed, D 544 SCHUBERT: Selections from Winterreise, D 911 SCHUBERT: Selections from Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 SCHUMANN: Selections from Dichterliebe, Op. 48 SCHUMANN: “Die ihr dies Haupt umschwebt im luft’gen Kreise … Horchet! horcht dem Sturm der Horen” from Szenen aus Goethes Faust BERLIOZ: “Les pèlerins étant venus en un lieu de belle apparence” from L’Enfance du Christ, op. 25
LUTOSLAWSKI: Paroles tissées VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge TIPPETT: Boyhood’s End TIPPETT: The Heart’s Assurance DELIUS: To Daffodils (Fair daffodils, we weep to see) E.J. Moeran The Merry Month of May Bernard van Dieren: Dream Pedlary (If there were dreams to sell) Bernard van DierenTake, o take those lips away TIPPETT: Songs for Ariel Alan Bush: Voices of the Prophets, op. 41 Peter Warlock: Piggésnie (She is so proper and so pure) Peter Warlock: Along the Stream GRAINGER: Bold William Taylor William Busch: Two Songs of William Blake William Busch: If thou wilt ease thine heart William Busch: Come, o come, my life’s delight John Ireland: The Land of Lost Content John Ireland: The Trellis Frank Bridge:’Tis but a week (Gerald Gould)
Frank Bridge:Goldenhair (Lean out of the window, Goldenhair) Frank Bridge:When you are old Frank Bridge: So perverse Frank Bridge:Journey’s End Richard Rodney Bennett: Tom O’Bedlam’s Song John Ireland: Three Songs Priaulx Rainier: Cycle for Declamation

The recorded legacy of the great English tenor Peter Pears is substantial and wide-ranging. It embraces Baroque repertory and Elizabethan songs as well as a vast amount of twentieth-century English music and German Lieder.

This anniversary collection features Pears in a wide selection of this repertory and it also charts his career as a recording artist from landmark recordings such as the first recording of Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (made in 1944) through to Britten’s Canticle V The Death of St Narcissus (composed in 1974), recorded near the end of his career in 1976.

The 6CD budget-price box includes many recordings appearing on CD for the first time as international releases.

A true rarity is the first ever release of Schubert’s Ganymed. The booklet features a new essay on Pears by George Hall.