VARIOUS ARTISTS BRITTEN: THE COLLECTORS EDITION 37 cd

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2008-11-03
• Nośnik CD

Niezwykle lubiana i popularna formacja JAGA JAZZIST ze swoim najnowszym wydawnictwem, następcą rewelacyjnej „One Armed Bandit”. Tym razem neo jazzowi mistrzowie nagrali album koncertowy, z udziałem Britten Sinfonia. Jak wspominają muzycy, od zawsze ich marzeniem bylo zagranie koncertu z orkiestrą. Pomysł podchwyciła dzidżejka BBC 3, która skontaktowała grupę z Britten Sinfonia. Tym samym doszło do wspólnych występów, które zostały zarejestrowane w ubiegłym roku. Dzięki wsparciu brytyjskiej orkiestry nagrania JAGA JAZZIST nabrały jeszcze większego rozmachu. Do znakomitej jakości brzmienia na koncertach 9-cio osobowego składu, muzycy zdążyli swoją publiczność przyzwyczaić. Mogli się o tym parokrotnie przekonać polscy fani zespołu, koncerty JAGA JAZZIST zawsze cieszyły sie w Polsce dużym zainteresowaniem. Na „Live With Britten Sinfonia” otrzymujemy jedank coś więcej. Udział brytyjskiej orkiestry nadaje nagraniom JAGI dodatkowej, epickiej potęgi

• Wykonawca Jaga Jazzist
• Data premiery 2013-05-28
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Miklós Perényi gra III Suitę op. 97 Benjamina Brittena i VI Suitę D-dur BWV 1012 Jana Sebastiana Bacha, przerzucając pomost pomiędzy tymi dwiema pozornie niezwiązanymi ze sobą kompozycjami. Britten napisał swoją suitę dla Rostropowicza, inspirując się jego wykonaniem suit Bacha. Rostropowicz określił wszystkie suity wiolonczelowe Brittena mianem arcydzieł, ale szczególnym uczuciem darzył trzecią z nich (powstałą w 1971 r.). Britten w tematach zawarł reminiscencje rosyjskich melodii ludowych, pozwalając im w pełni zabrzmieć dopiero w finale. Po suicie Brittena następuje na krążku ostatnia suita Bacha. Album wieńczy powrót do muzyki węgierskiej, a dokładnie do Sonaty wiolonczelowej Ligetiego z lat 1948-1953. Obecny album jest pierwszym nagranym przez Perényiego krążkiem dla ECM.

• Wykonawca Perenyi Miklos
• Data premiery 2012-02-07
• Nośnik CD

Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 Each of the four creative periods of Britten’s prolific career culminated in a major large-scale work. His full maturity was signalled by Peter Grimes (1945), the second and third creative periods ended with the War Requiem (1961) and Death in Venice (1973), and his brief Indian summer flowered in one of his very finest chamber works, the Third String Quartet. The two works featured on this disc frame his third creative period. After the War Requiem Britten embarked on a period of experimentation and expansion of techniques – a period that saw the composition of some of his most original works: the Cantata Misericordium, the Three Church Parables, the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake and A Poet’s Echo. Two considerable masterpieces belong to these years, Curlew River (the first of the Parables) and the Symphony for Cello and Orchestra The Cello Symphony was completed in May 1963 and was one of a series of works (including the Sonata in C and three suites for unaccompanied cello) that Britten composed for, and dedicated to, Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the first purely instrumental work of such imposing scale that Britten had composed since the early 1940s. The opening D minor Allegro maestoso is also Britten’s most substantial sonata-allegro in terms of scale and content. The contrapuntal G minor scherzo (Presto inquieto) exploits a three-note scalic motif contained within a minor third. Thirds also predominate in the intense, elegiac Adagio, in which the principal theme is constructed entirely from a descending sequence of melodic thirds. The second subject, shared between the cello and solo horn, anticipates the Passacaglia finale, where the trumpet tune (shades of Prokofiev and Janáˇcek) is subjected to six variations and a coda over a ground bass. The most important distinction to be made between Britten’s early concertos and the Cello Symphony is in the relationship between the soloist and the orchestra. Whereas in the bravura Piano Concerto (1938) and even in the more intense Violin Concerto (1939) the soloist assumes the traditional stance, being removed from and in dramatic conflict with the orchestra, in the Cello Symphony the soloist is a virtuosic yet integral part of a coherent symphonic design. The relationship is that which Britten had already explored in the Sonata for Cello and Piano that he had composed for Rostropovich in 1960. An age-old problem in writing for the cello as a solo instrument in the context of a full symphony orchestra is the difficulty of balancing the textures in such a way that the soloist can be heard. But the cello’s most expressive range is that which corresponds with the tessitura of the tenor voice, and Britten certainly knew how to discipline orchestral forces to allow the tenor voice to carry without force. A remarkable feature of the orchestration of the Cello Symphony is the melodic importance of the bass-Iine and the upper woodwind. The middle register of the orchestra is freed for the soloist. In this respect the orchestral palettes of the Cello Symphony and Death in Venice (whose principal protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, is sung by a tenor) have a great deal in common. © John Evans

• Wykonawca Wallfisch Raphael
• Data premiery 2013-05-01
• Nośnik CD

Stephen Layton’s first disc of Lukaszewski’s choral works (with The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge) was widely praised by listeners entranced by the composer’s unique yet accessible musical language. For this new release Layton and Polyphony, together with the Britten Sinfonia and a team of world-class soloists, have taken on a major work which is destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple or Pärt’s St John Passion. Via Crucis is a dramatization of the Stations of the Cross, a musical reading of this most solemn journey that evolves through its 55-minutes in an arc of culminatory ritual power.Lukaszewski's reputation is growing rapidly, and rightly so … Here, Christ's victory over death enables Lukaszewski to end on a triumphant coda that carries a primal power recalling Orff's Carmina Burana and Penderecki's St Luke Passion … All the performers evince an emotional commitment to the content as well as to accurate technical realisation of the music. The purity of sound achieved by Polyphony's sopranos and countertenor Iestyn Davies is notable, so too is Roger Allam's sonorous narration' (BBC Music Magazine)."A composer with a profound understanding of the technical and emotional range of the human voice … The shining writing for the countertenor Evangelist (performed by the outstanding Iestyn Davies) … and the Resurrectional blaze of the final 'Christus vincit'. This string of moments, by turns bright and oppressively dark, dramatic and reflective, receives a performance of the very deepest conviction by Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton, and the recorded sound is wonderful" - (Gramophone).

• Wykonawca Polyphony Layton Stepehn
• Data premiery 2009-02-10
• Nośnik CD

‘A very fine recording’ (Gramophone)‘A fresh and atmospheric account of Britten’s colourful cantata’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

• Wykonawca Johnson Anthony , Corydon Singers
• Data premiery 2009-08-08
• Nośnik CD

2013 sees the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth and Hyperion starts celebrating early with this disc of two of the composer’s most popular choral works, both with a Christmas relevance.The cantata Saint Nicolas tells the story of the original ‘Santa Claus’, a fourth-century saint whose acts—revitalizing three boys who had been pickled by an unscrupulous landlord being among the more dramatic—led to his canonization as patron saint of children and sailors. Britten’s lively setting is distinctly operatic, full of incident and colour—with the story brought ‘home’ through the use of congregational hymns. The part of Nicolas (here sung magnificently by Allan Clayton, already acclaimed as the heir to Peter Pears and Anthony Rolfe Johnson) is one of Britten’s great heroic tenor roles.A Ceremony of Carols is a setting for treble voices and harp of some of the medieval texts which Britten loved so much, and is heard every Christmas in cathedrals, churches and concert halls throughout the land. This fresh, sparkling performance completes a thoroughly festive release.

• Wykonawca Choir of Trinity College , Holst Singers
• Data premiery 2012-11-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:  Strauss 1. Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester D-Dur  Koechlin 2. Stücke für Oboe und Klavier op. 179  Britten 3. Gloriana op. 53  Zimmermann 4. Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester

• Wykonawca Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
• Data premiery 2001-04-01
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Tworząc biograficzną panoramę swej kariery, brytyjski tenor Ian Bostridge osobiście wybrał każde nagranie, które znalazło się w tej 7-płytowej kolekcji z serii „Autograph”. Skupiając się jednocześnie na pieśniach (w języku niemieckim i angielskim) oraz operach (od Monteverdiego po Adesa przez Haendela po Mozarta czy Brittena) album wyjaśnia, czemu Bostridge jest uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych żyjących wokalistów. Kolecję dopełnia ekskluzywny wywiad audio, którego artysta udzielił specjalnie na potrzeby niniejszego wydawnictwa. “Autograph” to nowa kolekcja wielopłytowych boxów Warner Classics/Erato. Każdy box skupia naszą uwagę wokół wybranego artysty, przedstawiając biograficzną panoramę jego kariery poprzez serię tematycznie skompilowanych płyt oraz fascynującą dokumentację. Każda kolekcja jest opracowana we współpracy z przedstawianym artystą i zawiera nagrany specjalnie dla tego wydania wywiad, w którym poruszane są tematy związane z życiem i pracą danego artysty. Zilustrowane fragmentami muzycznymi wywiady, prowadzone są przez uznanego publicystę i dziennikarza – Jona Tolansky’ego.Box zawiera następujące albumy:CD: 1 - Goethe, Heine And Eichendorff In The LiedCD: 2 - Goethe, Heine And Eichendorff In The Lied (Contd)CD: 3 - From Monteverdi To Mozart: Baroque And Classical OperaCD: 4 - From Monteverdi To Mozart: Baroque And Classical Opera (Cont’d)CD: 5 - Britten OperasCD: 6 - Britten Operas (Cont’d)CD: 7 - Ian Bostridge: An Interview Portrait

• Wykonawca Bostridge Ian , Drake Julius , Pappano Antonio , Andsnes Leif Ove , European Voices , Les Sacqueboutiers , Le Concert d'Astree , Haim Emmanuelle , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , Scottish Chamber Orchestra , Les Arts Florissants , Chorus Of The Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , Britten Sinfonia , Berliner Philharmoniker , Gentlemen of the London Symphony Chorus , London Symphony Orchestra , Mahler Chamber Orchestra
• Data premiery 2015-09-18
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  Long recognized as an outstanding chamber musician, Anthony Marwood has more recently been making waves as a concerto soloist, with two contributions to the Romantic Violin Concerto series and now a disc of Britten with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. The youthful Violin Concerto, with its mix of anguished lyricism and changeability of mood nods to both Berg (whose own Violin Concerto had made a profound impression on Britten) and Prokofiev but the result is entirely personal.  The still earlier Double Concerto, for violin and viola, is impressive above all for its precocious confidence; written when Britten was just eighteen and still a student at the Royal College of Music, it had to wait sixty-five years before receiving its belated premiere in 1997 at the 50th Aldeburgh Festival. Anthony Marwood is joined by star violist Lawrence Power (who makes two appearances in Hyperion’s new releases this month). The viola was Britten’s own instrument and his Lachrymae, inspired by a Dowland song, brings us to the other end of his career, for though it was composed in 1950, it wasn’t orchestrated until 1976, the year of his death.  

• Wykonawca Power Lawrence , Marwood Anthony
• Data premiery 2012-01-01
• Nośnik CD