Franck Bridge (1879-1941)

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English songs

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John Ireland : The Land of Lost Content
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

John Ireland : The Trellis
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : 'Tis but a week
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : Goldenhair
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : When you are old
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : So Perverse
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : Journey's End
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Richard Rodney Bennett : Tom o'Bedlams song
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Joan Dickson (Cello)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

John Ireland : Love and friendship
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

John Ireland : Friendship in misfortune
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

John Ireland : The one hope
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Priaulx Rainier : Cycle for declamation
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Beethoven : Piano Trio n°5; Mozart : Piano Trio K564; Bridge : Piano Trio n°2

CD (1) BBC - Legends - BBCL4134-2


Ludwig van Beethoven : Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano n°5 in D Major, op. 70/1 "Ghost"
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin); Maurice Gendron (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/06/24, 16th Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in G Major, K. 564
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin); Maurice Gendron (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/06/24, 16th Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano n°2
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin); Maurice Gendron (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/06/24, 16th Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Britten : Building of the House Overture; Bridge : The Sea, Enter Spring; Holst : Egdon Heath, A Fugal Concerto

CD (1) BBC - Legends - Britten the Performer - BBCB 8007-2


Benjamin Britten : The Building of the house, Overture, op. 79
Chorus of East Anglian Choirs / English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1967/06/04 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : The Sea
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23, Aldeburgh Festival - Blythburgh Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Gustav Holst : A Fugal concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings, op. 40/2
Richard Adeney (Flute); Peter Graeme (Oboe)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Imogen Holst
1969/06/15, Aldeburgh Festival - Blythburgh Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Gustav Holst : Egdon Heath, op. 47
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1961/07/06 - Orford Parish Church, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Enter Spring
New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1967/06/18, Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Sir Peter Pears : The Land of Lost Content

CD (1) BELART - 461 5502 10


John Ireland : The Land of Lost Content
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

John Ireland : The Trellis
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : 'Tis but a week
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : Goldenhair
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : When you are old
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : So Perverse
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franck Bridge : Journey's End
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/10/14 to 1963/10/16 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Michael Tippett : Songs for Ariel for medium voice and piano (or harpsichord)
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/12/14 & 1964/12/15 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Alan Bush : Voices of the Prophets
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Alan Bush (Piano)

Frederick Delius : To Daffodils
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Ernest John Moeran : The Merry Month of May
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Bernard Van Dieren : Dream Pedlary
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Bernard Van Dieren : Take, o take those lips away
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Peter Warlock : Piggesnie
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Peter Warlock : Along the Stream - from Saudades
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Trad. : Bold William Taylor, arr. Grainger
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

William Busch : The Echoing Green
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

William Busch : The Shepherd
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

William Busch : If thou wilt ease thine heart
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

William Busch : Come, oh come, my life's delight
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Viola Tunnard (Piano)

Peter Pears Recital

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Franz Schubert : Harfenspieler I - Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, D 478
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1959/04/29 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franz Schubert : Der Musensohn, D 764
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1959/04/29 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

Franz Schubert : Du bist die Ruh', D 776
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1959/04/29 - Kingsway Hall, London, England

George Butterworth : Songs from A Shropshire lad - Is my team ploughing ?
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Franck Bridge : Go not happy day
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Benjamin Britten : On this Island - Let the florid music praise, op. 11
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

John Dowland : Songes or ayres - Fine knacks for ladies
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Guitar)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Philip Rosseter : What then is love but mourning
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Philip Rosseter : Whether men do laugh or weep
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Guitar)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Thomas Morley : It was a lover and his lass
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Shostakovich : Cello Sonata, 7 Block Romances; Janacek : Pohadka; Bridge : Phantasie Quartet

CD (1) DECCA - Britten at Aldeburgh - 466 823-2 DM


Dmitri Shostakovich : Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, op. 40
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/06/14, Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Dmitri Shostakovich : 7 Blok romances, op. 127
Galina Vishnevskaya (Soprano)
Emanuel Hurwitz (Violin); Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1968/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Leos Janácek : Pohádka
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1965/06/27, Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Phantasie quartet
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
Amadeus String Quartet
1967/06/22, Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

English Music for Strings

CD (1) DECCA - LONDON - 425 160-2 LM


Henry Purcell : Chacony for Srtings, ed. Britten in G Minor, Z. 730
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1968/12/18 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Edward Elgar : Introduction and allegro, or String Quartet and String Orchestra, op. 47
Emanuel Hurwitz (Violin); Jose Luis Garcia (Violin); Cecil Aronowitz (Viola); Bernard Richards (Cello)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1968/12/18 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : Simple Symphony for Strings, op. 4
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1968/05/29 to 1968/05/31 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Frederick Delius : Two aquarelles, orch. Fenby
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1968/05/31, 1968/12/18 & 1968/12/19 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Sir Roger de Coverley for Strings
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1968/12/18 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : Prelude and Fugue for 18 Strings, op. 29
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/09/30 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

English Song Recital

LP (1) DECCA - LONDON - LL 1532


Franck Bridge : Go not happy day
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

George Butterworth : Songs from A Shropshire lad - Is my team ploughing ?
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

John Ireland : I have twelve oxen
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Ernest John Moeran : If youth is pleasure
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Peter Warlock : Yarmouth Fair
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Gustav Holst : Persephone
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Lennox Berkeley : How love came in
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Benjamin Britten : On this Island - Let the florid music praise, op. 11
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Arthur Oldham : Three Chinese lyrics
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Franck Bridge : Love went a-riding
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
955/09/08, 1955/09/09, 1955/09/30, 1955/10/07 & 1955/10/23 - Decca Recording Studios, West Hampstead, London, England

Thomas Ford : Fair, sweet, cruel
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Thomas Morley : Come, sorrow, come
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Philip Rosseter : When Laura smiles
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

John Dowland : I saw my lady weep
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Thomas Morley : It was a lover and his lass
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

John Dowland : Awake, sweet love
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Philip Rosseter : What then is love but mourning
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

John Dowland : In darkness let me dwell
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Thomas Morley : Mistress mine, well may you fake
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Julian Bream (Lute)
1955/09/30 & 1955/10/01

Schubert : Sonata for Arpeggione; Bridge : Cello Sonata

CD (1) DECCA - The Classic Sound - 443 575-2 DCS


Franz Schubert : Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D 821
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1968/07 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Sonata for Cello and Piano
Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1968/07 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Bridge : Piano Trio n°2; Shostakovich : Seven Romances, op. 127; Britten : The Poet's Echo

CD (1) DIS - PCCD 20026


Franck Bridge : Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano n°2
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin); Maurice Gendron (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1963/06/24, 16th Aldeburgh Festival - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Dmitri Shostakovich : 7 Blok romances, op. 127
Galina Vishnevskaya (Soprano)
Emanuel Hurwitz (Violin); Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1968/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : The Poet's Echo
Galina Vishnevskaya (Soprano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (Piano)
1968/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Legendary British Performers

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Franck Bridge : Go not happy day
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/05/07 - BBC Centre, London, England

Trad. : The Salley gardens (Irish tune), arr. Britten
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/05/07 - BBC Centre, London, England

Trad. : The shooting of his dear
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/05/07 - BBC Centre, London, England

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Quartet - Andante for Piano and Strings n°1 in G Minor, K. 478
Emanuel Hurwitz (Violin); Cecil Aronowitz (Viola); Terence Weil (Cello); Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/05/07 - BBC Centre, London, England

Trad. : The plough boy (tune by W. Shield), arr. Britten
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1964/05/07 - BBC Centre, London, England

Britten : Violin Concerto; Mozart : Violin Concerto n°3

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Carl Maria von Weber : Oberon - Overture
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Carl Maria von Weber : Oberon - Aria, Ozean! Du Ungeheuer!
Mary Wells (Soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 15
Mark Lubotsky (Violin)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto for Violin and Orchestra n°3 in G Major, K. 216
Mark Lubotsky (Violin)
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23 - Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : The Sea
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Britten
1971/06/23, Aldeburgh Festival - Blythburgh Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Purcell, Bridge, Shostakovich and Britten recital

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Henry Purcell : When night her purple veil, Cantata for Baritone, real. Britten
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
Members of the Alberni String Quartet
1965/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Jubilee Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Franck Bridge : Trio rhapsody
Dennis Simons (Violin); Howard Davis (Violin); John White (Viola)
1965/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Jubilee Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Dmitri Shostakovich : Quartet n°8 in C Minor, op. 110
Alberni Quartet
1965/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Jubilee Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : Songs and Proverbs of William Blake for Baritone and Piano, op. 74
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
1965/06/24, Aldeburgh Festival - Jubilee Hall, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England