Benjamin Britten Britten Conducts Britten

Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.3 (2005) (10CDs Box Set)

Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.3 (2005) (10CDs Box Set)
MP3 320 kbps | 10 CDs, 11:28:49 | 1,55 Gb | Scans->36 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Decca

For the hardcore Britten fan on your list, the 10-disc set called Britten conducts Britten is the perfect gift solution. They'll no doubt already have the classic recording of Britten conducting the War Requiem, his choral-orchestral masterpiece. But unless they collect old LPs, they probably won't have most of the rest of the recordings on these CDs including the odd but intense religious cantatas The Burning Fiery Furnace, The Prodigal Son, and Noye's Fludde; the even odder but still totally convincing children's opera The Little Sweep; and all the Christmas music, especially Saint Nicholas. How could any hardcore Britten fans resist?
Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.1 - Operas I (2004) (8CDs Box Set)

Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.1 - Operas I (2004) (8CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | Covers included | 2,31 Gb
MP3 320 kbps | 8 CDs, 09:03:56 min | 1,23 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera / Label: Decca

Volume one of Decca's Britten opera series includes both of the blockbusters mentioned above, the charming comedy Albert Herring, and the rarely heard television opera Owen Wingrave, all recorded between 1959 (Grimes) and 1971 (Wingrave).
Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.2 - Operas II (2004) (10CDs Box Set)

Benjamin Britten - Britten conducts Britten vol.2 - Operas II (2004) (10CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | Covers included | 2,54 Gb
MP3 320 kbps | 10 CDs, 11:06:46 min | 1,52 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera / Label: Decca

This second volume completes Decca's compact reissue of Britten conducting his own operas. As with the first volume, it is a self-recommending testament to the synergy of Britten's talents as a composer and conductor, and his continuing preeminence as a recorded interpreter of his own music.
Concertegbouw Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli - Barbirolli conducts Erik Satie, Benjamin Britten, Antonin Dvorak (2003)

Erik Satie: Gymnopédies Nos. 1 & 3; Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony #7 in D minor, Op. 70 (2003)
Concertegbouw Orchestra, Amsterdam; conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 352 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Testament | # SBT1252 | Time: 01:07:28

This is a fine Testament release taken from the archives of Netherlands Radio and enshrines some magnificent Barbirolli performances in somewhat opaque sound. The Satie Gymnopedie's have a delicate and loving sound that reveal Sir John's deep and intrinsic love for the miniaturistic charm of these enchanting pieces. Britten's 'Sinfonia da Requiem' was another Barbirolli speciality and this is one of many recordings available. However it is intriguing to observe the special attention and alertness that the Concertgebouw players impart to the music that takes on an added grandeur. However it is the Dvořák Seventh that is the real highlight of the disc as it is a version to die for! Sir John handles the music with real imagery and heart-on-sleeve emotion that almost rivals Kertész and Sejna, my other preferred versions in this landmark work.
Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Lachrymae - Music for Strings: Purcell, Britten, Part, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Tippett (2012)

Lachrymae - Music for Strings: Purcell, Britten, Pärt, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Tippett (2012)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Nicolas Bône (viola)
Douglas Boyd, William Conway, Richard Egarr (conductors)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 288 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Apex | # 2564 66070-5 | Time: 01:12:00

This CD is one of two Warner Classics recordings taped live during a series of concerts presented by the world renowned Chamber Orchestra of Europe during Easter Week 2003. The title for the concert series, presented in London, was Passions and Diversions as the works relate to different aspects of reflection and inspiration. In this program, Britten and Stokowski interpret works by Purcell in their own idioms; Britten draws on his English musical roots to inspire an original work, Lachrymae and Britten himself is the source of inspiration in Pärt’s Cantus. In the case of the Vaughan Williams, Tippett and Walton works, the inspirations are other composers and literature. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe has been described in The Financial Times as “the best orchestra in Europe.” The COE was founded in 1981 and has a membership of 50 musicians from 15 countries who perform together mainly in continental Europe and occasionally in the US and Japan. Since its inception, it has appeared with the world’s leading conductors and soloists, and its recordings have consistently won the highest praise and international prizes, including three Gramophone “Record of the Year” awards.
Benjamin Britten & The English Chamber Orchestra - Britten & Haydn (1964/2017)

Benjamin Britten & The English Chamber Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Haydn: Concerto in C for Cello and Orchestra (1964/2017)

DSD128 2.0 | 1-bit/5.6 MHz | Time: 01:12:28 | ~ 4.92 GB
or 24-bit/96 kHz | Flac(Tracks) | ~ 959 Mb
Classical/Orchestral/Cello | London / HDTT | Official Digital Download

~ Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra & Haydn: Concerto in C for Cello and Orchestra - Benjamin Britten Conducts the English Chamber Orchestra ~
Kim Kashkashian, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies -  Lachrymae: Hindemith; Britten; Penderecki (1993)

Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae;
Krzysztof Penderecki: Konzert für Viola und Kammerorchester
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 213 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1506, 439 611-2 | Time: 00:50:03

This beautifully programmed CD presents three settings for viola and orchestra and a more eloquent statement about the beauty of the viola as an instrument would be hard to imagine (except for perhaps including Vaughan Williams' 'Flos Campi'). The viola finds that middle voice between violin and cello, a rich tone with a built in quality of mournfulness. That quality has inspired the works on this recording and the result is some of the more wistful music ever written. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with the superb violist Kim Kashkashian.
Teodor Currentzis conducts Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich, Britten (2014) [Blu-Ray]

Teodor Currentzis Conducts Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1, Symphony No.1; Britten: Sinfonietta (2014) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27998 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 81 min | 20,8 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 9322 kbps / 29,970 fps | 81 min | 6,58 Gb
Audio: PCM/ 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | EuroArts

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra was Orchestra in Residence at the KlaraFestival 2013 which is known as a modern and international classical music festival far beyond Belgium’s borders. The concerts of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra formed one of the highlights of this year’s festival. Alongside young Greece conductor Teodor Currentzis, who is hailed as an “eccentric super-talented maestro”, the orchestra dedicates its performance to the two composers, contemporaries and friends Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich.

VA - The Decca Sound (2011) (50 CD Box Set)  Music

Posted by murena at Sept. 14, 2023
VA - The Decca Sound (2011) (50 CD Box Set)

VA - The Decca Sound (2011) (50 CD Box Set)
MP3 320 kbps | 50 CDs | 8,45 Gb | Covers > 183 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Decca

A 50-CD set of legendary recordings celebrating the world-renowned Decca Sound. Classic-status pioneering stereo recordings from the past 60 years and starring a galaxy of internationally-acclaimed artistic talent.
London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda - Britten: War Requiem (2012) [Official Digital Download]

London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda - Britten: War Requiem
Classical | FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | 83:31 min | 726 MB | Digital booklet
Label: LSO Live | Tracks: 26 | Rls.date: 2012

For his first LSO Live recording, Gianandrea Noseda is joined by three of today s most widely acclaimed singers for a magnificent performance of Benjamin Britten s choral masterpiece. Premiered 50 years ago on 30 May 1962, the 'War Requiem' was commissioned for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by bombing raids during the Second World War. Using the Latin mass of the dead, interspersed with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war.