{"product_id":"various-6-brandenburg-concertos-1953-aldeburgh-festival-britten-benjamin","title":"BACH: 6 Brandenburg Concertos (1953 Aldeburgh Festival Opening Concert) - Britten, English Chamber Orchestra (2 CDs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritten’s stately and clear-sighted readings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos begin a program that continues with a group of rarities. Much requested and finally available on CD, is the complete 1953 Opening Concert of the Aldeburgh Festival in which Britten and Imogen Holst shared the conducting honours. In addition to the anthems (in which the soloists include Alfred Deller), there is ‘Sellinger’s Round’, based on a theme by William Byrd with a series of variations by a range of British composers, including Tippett, Walton, Searle and Britten himself. The disc is completed with four ‘encores’ that formed an EP issued by Decca. From Adrian Boult’s Handel sessions with Kenneth McKellar come the Air from Suite No. 3 and ‘Sheep may safely graze’. The second side of the EP was taken up by Britten’s hushed arrangement of the English National Anthem and a blazing performance of Clarke’s ‘Trumpet Voluntary’, complete with the Trumpeters of Kneller Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 in F, BWV 1046\u003cbr\u003eVARIOUS: Sellinger’s Round (Variations on an Elizabethan Theme)*\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS ARNE\u003cbr\u003eRule Britannia (Arthur)**\u003cbr\u003eNow the air shall ring (The Fairy Prince)**\u003cbr\u003eHENRY PURCELL: O Lord, Grant the Queen a Long Life**\u003cbr\u003eJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH\u003cbr\u003eAir (Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068+\u003cbr\u003eSheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV208)+\u003cbr\u003eANON. arr. Britten: God Save the Queen#\u003cbr\u003eJEREMIAH CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary++\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish Chamber Orchestra\u003cbr\u003eAldeburgh Festival Orchestra*\u003cbr\u003eLondon Symphony Chorus#\u003cbr\u003eLondon Symphony Orchestra#\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Britten\u003cbr\u003ePeter Pears, tenor*\u003cbr\u003eAldeburgh Festival Chorus**\u003cbr\u003eAldeburgh Festival Orchestra**\u003cbr\u003eImogen Holst**\u003cbr\u003eOrchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden+\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Boult+\u003cbr\u003eTrumpeters of Kneller Hall Royal Military School of Music++\u003cbr\u003eLondon Symphony Orchestra++\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Alwyn++\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32340429570135,"sku":"028944295214","price":9.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/00028944295214-booklet-1-1024x1024.jpg?v=1600104725","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/various-6-brandenburg-concertos-1953-aldeburgh-festival-britten-benjamin","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}