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Owen Wingrave Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo
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Owen Wingrave [sound recording] ; Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo / Britten.
Published
New York, N.Y. : London, p1993.
Physical Description
2 sound discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
First work an opera for television in 2 acts; the 2nd-3rd works are song cycles.
Libretto of the opera by Myfanwy Piper, based on Henry James' story; text of 3rd work from Pushkin.
Compact discs.
Originally issued on analog discs.
Eds. recorded: Faber Music Ltd. (1st & 3rd works), Boosey & Hawkes (2nd work).
Duration of 1st work: 107 min.
Program notes by Philip Brett in English, French, German & Italian, libretto of 1st work, & vocal texts of 2nd-3rd works (the latter in transliteration) with English translations laid in container.
Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London in Dec. 1970 (opera) & in Nov. 1961 (2nd work), and The Maltings, Snape in July 1968 (3rd work).
Sung in English (1st work), German (2nd work) & Russian (3rd work).
Variant and related titles
Hölderlin fragments.
Poet's echo.
Format
Audio
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Performers
Benjamin Luxon, John Shirley-Quirk, Nigel Douglas, Sylvia Fisher, Heather Harper, Jennifer Vyvyan, Janet Baker, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra, the composer, conductor (opera) ; Peter Pears, tenor, the composer, piano (2nd work) ; Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano, Mstislav Rostropovich, piano (3rd work).
Partial contents
Six Hölderlin fragments (11:44). Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens
The poet's echo (14:48). Ekho (Echo) ; Ya dumal, serdtse pozabilo (My heart, I thought you had forgotten) ; Angel ; Solovyei i roza (The nightingale and the rose) ; Epigramma (Epigram) ; Stikhi, sochinyonniye nochyu vo vremya besonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night).
Issue number
433 200-2 (433 201-2--433 202-2) London
433 201-2 London
433 202-2 London
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English Chamber Orchestra.
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