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Britten: Owen Wingrave [Britten] [Decca] |
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
Heather Harper (szoprán), Jennifer Vyvyan (szoprán), Sylvia Fisher (szoprán), Dame Janet Baker (mezzoszoprán), Nigel Douglas (tenor), Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (bariton), John Shirley-Quirk (basszbariton), Peter Pears (narrátor), Brian Large (videorendező), Colin Graham (rendező), Benjamin Britten (karmester), English Chamber Orchestra (zenekar) |
európai első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
Opera |
(2009)
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1. | Owen Wingrave
Heather Harper (szoprán), Jennifer Vyvyan (szoprán), Sylvia Fisher (szoprán), Dame Janet Baker (mezzoszoprán), Nigel Douglas (tenor), Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (bariton), John Shirley-Quirk (basszbariton), Peter Pears (narrátor), Brian Large (videorendező), Colin Graham (rendező), Benjamin Britten (karmester), English Chamber Orchestra (zenekar)
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Opera in 2 acts Libretto: Myfanwy Piper [Based: a short story by Henry James] First performance: 10 May 1973, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden First broadcast: 16 May 1971, BBC2 [Recorded: November 1970, Snape Maltings]
Recorded: November 1970, Snape Maltings
Benjamin Luxon (Owen Wingrave) John Shirley-Quirk (Spencer Coyle) Nigel Douglas (Lechmere) Sylvia Fisher (Miss Wingrave) Heather Harper (Mrs Coyle) Jennifer Vyvyan (Mrs Julian) Janet Baker (Kate Julian) Peter Pears (Sir Philip Wingrave and Narrator)
First ever release on any format of the original recording of Britten's Owen Wingrave; part of Decca's critically acclaimed "Britten-Pears Collection"
"Pears [has] an amazing range of colors: sometimes blazing, sometimes smoldering... In minefields of tricky intervals and harmonies, it's also amazing to hear a singer target pitches with such unerring precision. And rare is the singer who so elegantly forms words on so seamless a legato." Dallas Morning News in a review of the first four releases in the Britten-Pears Collection
First-ever release on any format of this important BBC film, carefully restored by the BBC, part of the Britten-Pears Collection
Based on a story by Henry James, Owen Wingrave was commissioned by the BBC as an opera for television. Originally broadcast in colour in 1971 it has an outstanding cast of great British singers, including Peter Pears, Janet Baker, Heather Harper, Benjamin Luxon and John Shirley-Quirk
The opera's story reflects Britten's own strongly-held pacifist beliefs; the opera's central character is a young man from an impeccable military background whose rejection of war leads him into family conflict with a tragic conclusion.
Extras: 15 minutes of "Extracts from Music Now" introductory documentary |
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