Cello Britten

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 ~

Noémi Boutin - Britten Cello Suites (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 18, 2017
Noémi Boutin - Britten Cello Suites (2017)

Noémi Boutin - Britten Cello Suites (2017)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:14:05 | 171 MB
Label: NoMadMusic | Release Year: 2017

Britten's works for the cello were the result of a close friendship with Mstislav Rostropovitch. The cellist inspired the composer with his Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, his Sonata for Cello and Piano, and the following three Suites - undoubtedly the most important corpus of cello music since the Bach Suites. This is a completely new music, totally unclassifiable and marked by the personality of Britten; A kind of re-reading of a baroque form that contains some of the most overwhelming pages that have been composed for the cello. Often absent from concert programs, the young French cellist Noémi Boutin chose to record them because, she says, "they possess the density, delicacy and visionary sensitivity of the greatest works.
Britten: Cello Symphony, Cello Sonata, Cello Suites - Alban Gerhardt, Steven Osborne (2013)

Britten: Cello Symphony, Cello Sonata, Cello Suites - Alban Gerhardt, Steven Osborne (2013)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 2 CDs | Full Scans | 457 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67941

A major release at the start of Britten’s anniversary celebrations. Britten’s long friendship with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was one of the most inspiring and fruitful musical collaborations in history. It led directly to the composition of some of the most important works for cello of the twentieth century.
Gautier Capucon, Frank Braley - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata; Schumann, Debussy, Britten (2014)

Gautier Capucon, Frank Braley - Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata; Schumann, Debussy, Britten (2014)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 302 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | Catalog Number: 15828

This collection of works for cello and piano, with Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata as its centrepiece, sees Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley paying tribute to two towering musicians of the 20th century, Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten, who recorded all four of the works on the programme: Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, Debussy’s Cello Sonata, Schumann’s Fünf Stücke im Volkston and Britten’s own Cello Sonata in five movements, which received its first performance at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1961, two years after composer and cellist had first met. “It is a magnificent piece,” says Gautier Capuçon of the Britten, “and too rarely played as far as I’m concerned. I grew up with Britten’s children’s opera The Little Sweep, so I am well acquainted with his language.” Moreover, 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth.
Pieter Wispelwey, Sinfonietta Cracovia - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.2; Britten: Cello Suite No.3 (2009) [24-bit/192kHz]

Pieter Wispelwey, Sinfonietta Cracovia - Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.2; Britten: Cello Suite No.3 (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 61:52 minutes | 3,31 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Winner of the BBC Music Magazine 2009 Award for technical excellence, this disc presents music composed by Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, two striking personalities from recent 20th-century musical history, who were also united by an intimate friendship. They both also shared reciprocal friendship with the inspiring and energetic Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premier of both the three Suites for cello by Britten solo and the Second Cello Concerto in G by Shostakovich.
Steven Isserlis - British Solo Cello Music: Britten Suite No. 3, Walton, Gardner, Merrick & Adès (2021) [24/192]

Steven Isserlis - British Solo Cello Music: Britten Suite No. 3, Walton, Gardner, Merrick & Adès (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:28 minutes | 2,91 GB
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records, Official Digital Download

If Britten’s Cello Suite No 3 is the undisputed masterpiece here, the other works are no less deserving of attention, Frank Merrick’s Suite in the eighteenth-century style being a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis’s booklet notes offer fascinatingly personal perspectives on the composers and their music.
Guy Johnston, Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge - Howells: Cello Concerto, An English Mass (2019)

Guy Johnston, Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia & Christopher Seaman - Howells: Cello Concerto, An English Mass (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 402 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 242 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:43:37
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: King's College Cambridge

A double-album set of orchestral, choral and organ music by one of the most distinguished English composers of the 20th century. Herbert Howells’ An English Mass is presented by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge with the Britten Sinfonia, recorded in the sublime acoustic of King’s College Chapel. Alongside the work is the magnificent orchestrated Te Deum from the Collegium Regale service, and a premiere recording of the Magnificat from the same service, orchestrated by John Rutter. For both these recordings, the Choir and orchestra are joined additionally by the King’s College mixed voice choir, King’s Voices.
Truls Mørk & Håvard Gimse - Bridge, Britten, Debussy: Cello Sonatas (2022)

Truls Mørk & Håvard Gimse - Bridge, Britten, Debussy: Cello Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:10:52 | 260 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

The great Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk makes a triumphal return to chamber music with his regular piano partner Håvard Gimse. The programme features two English composers, Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge, whose Cello Sonata was written during the First World War and is tinged with despair and searing emotional force. Britten composed his Cello Sonata in 1961, following his meeting with Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom he dedicated the work.
Another person traumatised by the Great War was Debussy, who wrote: ‘it was cowardly to think only of the horrors being committed, without trying to react by rebuilding, insofar as my strength allowed, a little of that beauty which is currently under attack’. His Cello Sonata (1915) was the first of a series of six sonatas for various instruments that he planned to compose, only managing to write three before his death. As a determined Moravian nationalist, Janáček did not entitle his three-movement work of 1910 ‘sonata’; he called it Pohádka ("Fairy tale") and based it on a poem by Vasily Zhukovsky.
Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley - Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Britten: Works for Cello and Piano (2013) (Repost)

Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley - Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Britten: Works for Cello and Piano (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:14:20 | 335 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | Catalog: 5099993415828

In the first decade of his recording career, cellist Gautier Capuçon has demonstrated great versatility, playing as often as a chamber musician as he has appeared as a concerto soloist. His repertoire covers the standard cello works, though he frequently performs pieces that are less expected. Thus, on this 2014 release from Erato, Capuçon delivers a stirring performance of Franz Schubert's famous Arpeggione Sonata, which is regularly recorded by cellists, yet he fills the rest of the disc with pieces a bit off the beaten path, such as Robert Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style, Claude Debussy's Sonata for cello and piano, and Benjamin Britten's Sonata in C.
Benjamin Britten - Cello Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem (Britten Conducts Britten)

Benjamin Britten - Cello Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem (Britten Conducts Britten)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 417 Mb
Label: Decca - Date: 1989

With the arrival of Benjamin Britten on the international music scene, many felt that English music gained its greatest genius since Purcell. A composer of wide-ranging talents, Britten found in the human voice an especial source of inspiration, an affinity that resulted in a remarkable body of work, ranging from operas like Peter Grimes (1944-1945) and Death in Venice (1973) to song cycles like the Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings (1943) to the massive choral work War Requiem (1961). He also produced much music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, including symphonies, concerti, and chamber and solo works. Britten's father was a prosperous oral surgeon in the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk; his mother was a leader in the local ……
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