Episode 3
Donald Macleod introduces Britten's Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, which was premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1952, plus excerpts from two operas and a ballet.
By 1952, when the Aldeburgh Festival was in its 5th year, Britten was nearing forty. By then, he and Pears were very much part of the fabric of the community there. Donald Macleod introduces Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, which was premiered at the festival that year, extracts from two more operas - the first based on Henry James' ghostly novella Turn of the Screw and the second on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, plus another fairy-tale work - the ballet Prince of the Pagodas, complete with magical evocation of the Balinese gamelan.
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Benjamin Britten
Gloriana (Morris Dance)
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Conductor Andr茅 Previn
- Telarc CD80126.
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Benjamin Britten
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
Performer: Peter Pears (tenor) Performer: John Hahessy (alto) Performer: Benjamin Britten (piano)
- London 425 716-2.
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Benjamin Britten
Turn of the Screw (extract)
Performer: Ian Bostridge (Peter Quint) Performer: Julian Leang (Miles) Performer: Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel) Performer: Caroline Wise (Flora) Performer: Joan Rodgers (Governess) Performer: Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose) Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Performer: Conductor Daniel Harding
- Virgin Classics VCD 545521.
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Benjamin Britten
Winter words 鈥� Midnight on the Great Western
Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Performer: Graham Johnson (piano)
- Helios CDH55067.
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Benjamin Britten
Prince of the Pagodas (extract)
Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conductor Leonard Slatkin
- Chandos CHAN 10111.
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Benjamin Britten
Midsummer Night's Dream (extract)
Performer: Alfred Deller (Oberon) Performer: Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania) Performer: Stephen Terry (Puck) Performer: Richard Dakin, John Pryer, Ian Wodehouse (Fairies) Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conductor Benjamin Britten
- London 425 663-2.
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