Castle Classics
Items Ordered: , Cart Value:

REMEMBER - WE DO NOT CHARGE FOR POSTAGE ON UK DELIVERIES. FURTHERMORE, ORDERS FROM OUTWITH THE EU WILL HAVE THE VAT DEDUCTED AT THE CHECKOUT

Castle Classics >  Classical CD  >  New Releases  >  Nimbus New Releases  >  NI5824-26 B Britten: Albert Herring - The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra; Benjamin Britten, conductor
NI5824-26 B Britten: Albert Herring - The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra; Benjamin Britten, conductor NI5824-26 B Britten: Albert Herring - The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra; Benjamin Britten, conductor

Label - Nimbus

Cat. No. - NI5824-26

3 CD Set

Recorded at The Royal Theatre, Copenhagen - 15th September, 1949

This live recording is of a performance given by the English Opera Group, conducted by the composer in the Theatre Royal, Copenhagen on 15th September 1949. It is a fascinating document, coming, as it does, only two years after the first performance of the opera and with no less than eleven members of the original cast still in the team. The composer's studio recording of Albert Herring was not made until 1964, and, excellent though it is, by then Peter Pears was the only role-creator still in the cast. All limitation of the sound quality aside, this is a wonderful survivor and one of the earliest recorded examples of Britten and the EOG in performance.

Cast: Lady Billows an elderly autocrat - Joan Cross; Florence Pike her housekeeper - Gladys Parr; Miss Wordsworth Head Teacher at the School - Margaret Ritchie; Mr. Gedge the Vicar - Otakar Kraus; Mr. Upfold the Mayor - Roy Ashton; Superintendent Budd - Norman Lumsden; Sid butcher's shophand - Denis Dowling; Albert Herring from the greengrocer's - Peter Pears; Nancy from the bakery - Nancy Evans; Mrs Herring Albert's mother - Catherine Lawson; Emmie - Anne Sharp; Cis - Elisabeth Parry; Harry - Alan Thompson
Price: £17.50 (Including VAT at 15%)

Quantity:  

Castle Classics >  Classical CD  >  New Releases  >  Nimbus New Releases  >  NI5824-26 B Britten: Albert Herring - The English Opera Group Chamber Orchestra; Benjamin Britten, conductor

REMEMBER - WE DO NOT CHARGE FOR POSTAGE ON UK DELIVERIES. FURTHERMORE, ORDERS FROM OUTWITH THE EU WILL HAVE THE VAT DEDUCTED AT THE CHECKOUT


<