Aldeburgh Festival, 1953

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William Byrd : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Theme for String Orchestra, arr. Imogen Holst "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Arthur Oldham : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 1, Allegro non troppo for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Michael Tippett : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 2, A Lament, Andante espressivo for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Lennox Berkeley : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 3, Andante for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Benjamin Britten : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 4, Quick and Gay for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Humphrey Searle : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 5, Nocturne, Adagio for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

William Walton : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 6, Finale, Presto giocoso for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra (Strings) (leader Olive Zorian) conducted by Benjamin Britten
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Thomas Augustine Arne : Alfred - Ode in honor of Great Britain, Masque "Rule Britannia"
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra conducted by Imogen Holst
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Henry Purcell : O Lord, grant the Queen a long life
Alfred Deller (Alto); Peter Pears (Tenor); Norman Lumsden (Bass)
Ralph Downes (Organ)
Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra conducted by Imogen Holst
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

Thomas Augustine Arne : Fairy prince - Now all the air shall ring, Masque
Arda Mandikian (Soprano); Gladys Whitred (Soprano)
Aldeburgh Festival Choir and Orchestra conducted by Imogen Holst
1953/06/20, Aldeburgh Festival, Opening Concert - Aldeburgh Parish Church, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, England

English Song Recital

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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

Aldeburgh Festival, 1953

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Variation on an Elizabethan Theme; Britten : Suite from Gloriana

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William Byrd : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Theme for String Orchestra, arr. Imogen Holst "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Arthur Oldham : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 1, Allegro non troppo for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Michael Tippett : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 2, A Lament, Andante espressivo for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Lennox Berkeley : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 3, Andante for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Benjamin Britten : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 4, Quick and Gay for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Humphrey Searle : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 5, Nocturne, Adagio for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

William Walton : Variation on an Elizabethan Theme - Variation 6, Finale, Presto giocoso for String Orchestra "Sellinger's round"
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany

Benjamin Britten : Gloriana, Symphonic Suite from the Opera for Orchestra and Tenor Solo (ad lib.), op. 53a
Peter Pears (Tenor)
SWF Symphonie Orchester conducted by Benjamin Britten
1956/12 - Germany