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Here are two more performances in BBC’s “Britten the Performer” series, both from 1967, and both featuring the composer as conductor–a role in which he
Benjamin Britten’s cantata Rejoice in the Lamb has been very well served on recordings, both in performances with men and boys (St. Thomas Church, New
In John Eliot Gardiner’s DG War Requiem, recorded in 1992 at the Marienkirche, Lübeck, the boys’ chorus is placed at one end of the building
As far as I’m concerned–and among choral music fans I know I’m not alone in this–there can’t be too many recordings of the repertoire featured
John Mark Ainsley is a very fine tenor, especially adept and engaging in English song repertoire. His performances here exemplify technical mastery combined with a
This is a spectacular recording, not just in the “blockbuster” sense of containing four big, splashy orchestral works, extremely well recorded, but also because Paavo
This excellent compilation brings together two of Benjamin Britten’s finest song cycles–the Michelangelo Sonnets and Winter Words–in their most memorable and authoritative realizations, the original
Christopher Hogwood’s ongoing series of “Modern Classics” for Arte Nova presents enjoyable programs that make for very appealing listening taken as a whole. Here he
What is there to say? Well, quite a bit, actually, but not about the performance itself. It’s still an outstanding rendition of perhaps the great
As he has shown in previous volumes in this Organ History series, Arturo Sacchetti is a consistently fine and often imaginative organist, and here he
