British composers

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Benjamin BRITTEN 1913-1976 :Scènes de Peter Grimes (Pears, Cross, Culbert - BBC Theatre Chorus - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Goodall) - 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo - Holy Sonnets of John Donne (Pears - Britten) - The Rape of Lucretia (Pears, Cross, Evans, Lumsden. - English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra / Goodall) - Concerto pour violon (Olof - Hallé Orchestra / Barbirolli) - Prelude and Fugue for 18-part string orchestra (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Del Mar) -Concerto pour piano (Jacques Abram - Philharmonia / Menges) Edmund RUBBRA 1901-1986 : Symphonie n°5 - Loth to depart (Hallé Orchestra / Barbirolli) - Concerto pour piano (Matthews - BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sargent) Michael HEMING 1920-1942 : Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action (Hallé Orchestra / Barbirolli) Sir Lennox BERKELEY 1903-1989 : Trio pour cor (Parikian - Brain - Horsley) - 6 Preludes (Horsley) - 4 Poems of St Teresa of Avila (Bowden - Collegium Musicum Londinii / Minchinton) - 3 Greek Songs - 5 Poems by W. H. Auden (Hemsley - Lush) - Polka Op.5 n°1 (Smith & Sellick) - I sing of a maiden (Davis) - The Lord is my shepherd (Rose - Hughes - Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Willcocks, Cleobury) La fine fleur des artistes britanniques pour interpréter des oeuvres de Benjamin Britten et de plusieurs de ses contemporains. A découvrir !