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The Heart of the matter ; Songs for tenor and piano
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The Heart of the matter ; Songs for tenor and piano [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.
Published
Hayes, Middlesex, England : EMI, p1987.
Physical Description
1 sound disc (54 min., 26 sec.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Notes
Neil Mackie, tenor ; Roger Vignoles, piano ; Barry Tuckwell, horn (1st work) ; Sir Peter Pears, speaker (1st work).
Compact disc (indexed); digital recording.
Program notes by John Evans and texts in container.
Recorded at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, May 27 and July 18, 1986; tape of Sir Peter Pears made by BBC in 1985.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2014
Performers
Neil Mackie, tenor ; Barry Tuckwell, horn (in 1st work) ; Sir Peter Pears, narrator (in 1st work) ; Roger Vignoles, piano.
Contents
The heart of the matter : a sequence of music with words by Edith Sitwell (26:35)
Two songs by Thomas Hardy (6:04)
Three early songs (3:17)
For a song / Burra (2:05)
Two songs by W.H. Auden (5:17)
The oxen / Hardy; arr. Pears (3:11)
Three rhymes by William Soutar (2:39)
Three realizations of Henry Purcell (5:19).
Issue number
CDC 7 49257 2 EMI
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