The Voice Of Peter Peter Pears

 
The Voice Of Peter Peter Pears cover $18.00 Low Stock add to cart

BRITTEN / SCHUBERT / DOWLAND / TRADITIONAL / etc
The Voice Of Peter Peter Pears
Peter Pears (tenor) with Julian Bream & Benjamin Britten

[ Regis / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 24 September 2012

Should this item be out of stock at the time of your order, we would expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 5 business days.

This Regis disc celebrates the uniqueness of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive voices in collaborations with life-long musical partners Benjamin Britten and Julian Bream. The repertoire ranges from Dowland to Schubert to Britten, in addition to featuring twentieth century English composers and folksong settings by Grainger and Copland. Super budget price.

"The voice itself was unique and controversial........It was the way in which he used it which was genuinely beautiful, and his artistic insight into every work he studied is a model for those with ambitions to equal his stature." Gramophone

"The recordings reissued on this release date from the years between 1947 and 1960, at a time when the mannerisms which unfortunately sometimes marred Pears's later recordings were not so evident...These recordings are all available elsewhere in various compilations of Pears' art, but it is valuable to have them gathered on this very reasonably priced disc." (MusicWeb)

Tracks:

Thomas FORD (1580-1648)
Fair, sweet, cruel [1.57]1
Philip ROSSETER (1567-1623)
What then but love is mourning [2.46]1
John DOWLAND (1563-1626)
I saw my lady weep [4.06]1
What if I never speed [1.32]1
Thomas MORLEY (1557-1602)
It was a lover and his lass [2.21]1
Thomas CAMPION (1567-1620)
Shall I come sweet love? [2.58]1
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Im Frühling, D882 [4.58]2
Auf der Bruck, D583 [3.31]2
An die Laute, D905 [1.46]3
Der Taubenpost, D957/14 [3.47]3
Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35 [23.07]4
Folksong arrangement: The plough boy [2.00]4
John IRELAND (1879-1962)
I have twelve oxen (1918) [1.43]5
Ernest John MOERAN (1894-1950)
In youth is pleasure (1940) [2.24]5
Peter WARLOCK (1894-1930)
Yarmouth Fair (1924) [1.36]5
Sir Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)
How love came in (1935) [1.17]5
Frank BRIDGE (1879-1941)
Love went a-riding (1914) [1.38]5
Percy GRAINGER (1882-1961)
Folksong arrangement: Six Dukes went a-fishin' [3.04]2
Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990)
Folksong arrangements: Long time ago, Simple gifts, I bought me a cat (1950) [7.01]2
Peter Pears (tenor), with Benjamin Britten (piano) except 1with Julian Bream (guitar)
rec. 19474, 19502, 195615 and 31960