BRITTEN - COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, PIANIST - 6 DVDS

Britten:
Peter Grimes
Peter Pears (Peter Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen Orford), Bryan Drake (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Gregory Dempsey (Bob Boles), Owen Brannigan (Swallow), Ann Robson (Mrs Sedley), David Bowman (Ned Keene), Robert Tear (Horace Adams), Michael Rippon (Hobson), Jill Gomez (First Niece), Anne Pashley (Second Niece)
London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Billy Budd
Peter Glossop (Billy Budd), Peter Pears (Captain Vere), Michael Langdon (Claggart), John Shirley-Quirk (Mr Redburn), Bryan Drake (Mr Flint), David Kelly (Mr Ratcliffe), Kenneth MacDonald (Red Whiskers), David Bowman (Donald), Dennis Wicks (Dansker), Robert Tear (Novice), Robert Bowman (Squeak), Benjamin Luxon (Novice's Friend)
London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Owen Wingrave
Benjamin Luxon (Owen Wingrave), John Shirley-Quirk (Spencer Coyle), Sylvia Fisher (Miss Wingrave), Heather Harper (Mrs Coyle), Jennifer Vyvyan (Mrs. Julien), Peter Pears (Sir Philip Wingrave/Narrator), Janet Baker (Kate), Nigel Douglas (Lechmere)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Dibdin:
Tom Bowling

Gay:
The Beggar's Opera
realised by Benjamin Britten
English Chamber Orchestra, Meredith Davies

Mozart:
Idomeneo, K366
English Version
Peter Pears (Idomeneo), Anne Pashley (Idamante), Heather Harper (Ilia), Rae Woodland (Elettra), Robert Tear (Arbace), Andrew Williams (High Priest), Paul Nemeer (Voice of Neptune)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Purcell:
Man is for the woman made (from The Mock Marriage, Z605)
arr. Britten

Schubert:
Winterreise D911
Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten

trad.:
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
O Waly, Waly ('The Water is Wide')
Sweet Polly Oliver
Sally In Our Alley
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Plough Boy
Oliver Cromwell

plus Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss Winterreise
36. Frühlingstraum 4:50
37. Im Dorfe 5:28
38. Der Leiermann 2:27
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten