Decca: 475 6021--475 6028 (set: 475 6020). Title from container. In Albert Herring: Sylvia Fisher (Lady Billows) ; Johanna Peters (Florence Pike) ; April Cantelo (Miss Wordsworth) ; John Nobel (Mr. Gedge) ; Edgar Evans (Mr. Upfold) ; Owen Brannigan (Police Superintendent Budd) ; Joseph Ward (Sid) ; Peter Pears (Albert Herring) ; Catherine Wilson (Nancy) ; Sheila Rex (Mrs. Herring) ; English Chamber Orchestra. In Owen Wingrave: Benjamin Luxon (Owen Wingrave) ; John Shirley-Quirk (Spencer Coyle) ; Nigel Douglas (Lechmere) ; Sylvia Fischer (Miss Wingrave) ; Heather Harper (Mrs. Coyle) ; Jennifer Vyvyan (Mrs. Julian) ; Janet Baker (Kate Julian) ; Peter Pears (Gen. Sir Philip Wingrave & the narrator) ; The Wandsworth School Boys' Choir ; ; English Chamber Orchestra. In Billy Budd: Peter Glossop (Billy Budd) ; Peter Pears (Edward Fairfax Vere) ; Michael Langdon (John Claggart) ; John Shirley-Quirk (Mr. Redburn) ; Bryan Drake (Mr. Flint) ; David Kelly (Ratcliffe) ; Gregory Dempsey (Red Whiskers) ; David Bowman (Donald) ; Owen Brannigan (Dansker) ; Robert Tear (a novice) ; additional soloists ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; London Symphony Orchestra. In Peter Grimes: Peter Pears (Peter Grimes) ; Claire Watson (Ellen Orford) ; James Pease (Capt. Balstrode) ; David Kelly (Hobson) ; Owen Brannigan (Swallow) ; Lauris Elms (Mrs. Sedley) ; Jean Watson (Auntie) ; Marion Studholme (Niece 1) ; Iris Kells (Niece 2) ; Raymond Nilsson (Bob Boles) ; John Lanigan (The Rector) ; Geraint Evans (Ned Keene) ; Marcus Norman (John) ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recorded: April 1964, Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh (Albert Herring); Dec. 1967, Kingsway Hall, London (Billy Budd); Dec. 1970, Kingsway Hall, London (Owen Wingrave); Dec. 1958, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (Peter Grimes). Previously released in 1964 (Albert Herring); 1968 (Billy Budd); 1971 (Owen Wingrave); and 1959 (Peter Grimes). Includes track information and synopses in English (30 pages) in accompanying booklet.
Contents:
Albert Herring : comic opera in three acts, op. 39 / libretto by Eric Crozier ; after Maupassant "Le Rosier de Madame Husson" -- Owen Wingrave : opera in two acts, op. 85 / libretto by Myfanwy Piper ; based on the short story by Henry James -- Billy Budd : opera in two acts (revised version), op. 50 / libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier ; adapted from the story by Herman Melville -- Peter Grimes : opera in in prologue and three acts, op. 33 / libretto by Montagu Slater ; after George Crabbe's poem "The Borough".
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