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Dennis Brain Serenade (Pears, Goossens) / Britten ; Horn trio / Berkeley ; Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (1956) / Bach
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Dennis Brain [sound recording] : Serenade (Pears, Goossens) / Britten ; Horn trio / Berkeley ; Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (1956) / Bach.
Published
[Tokyo] : Opus Kura, p2007.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Compact disc.
Originally issued on Decca, English Columbia & Musical Masterpiece Society (MMS) 33 1/3 rpm discs.
Program notes about Brain & the recordings by Tully Potter, in Japanese & English, & English words for the Britten with Japanese translation inserted in container.
Durations: 24:16 ; 26:17 ; 19:29.
Recorded in Nov. 1953, Mar. 1954, & in 1956, respectively. These were the 2nd recordings Brain made of the Britten & Bach works.
The Britten is sung in English.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2012
Performers
Dennis Brain, horn ; Peter Pears, tenor, New Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens, conductor (Britten) ; Manoug Parikian, violin, Colin Horsley, piano (Berkeley) ; Emanuel Hurwitz, violin, Leon Goossens, oboe, George Malcolm, harpsichord, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel, conductor (Bach).
Partial contents
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, op. 31. Prologue [horn solo] (1:25) ; Pastoral (Charles Cotton) (3:35) ; Nocturne (Tennyson) (3:22) ; Elegy (Blake) (4:37) ; Dirge ["This ae nighte" ; aka Lyke-Wake dirge] (anon. 15th cent.) (3:56) ; Hymn ["Queen and huntress"] (Ben Jonson) (2:01) ; Sonnet ["O soft embalmer"] (Keats) (3:49) ; Epilogue [off-stage horn solo] (1:31).
Issue number
OPK 7034 Opus Kura
Also listed under
New Symphony Orchestra of London.
Boyd Neel Orchestra.
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