Latest Updates - Benjamin Britten

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

The original release in May 1963 as a Decca box set of two LPs was on SET.252 & SET.253 (stereo) and MET.252 & MET.253 (mono). Recording producer John Culshaw took great care to position the performers optimally for a stereo recording. Soloists Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears were joined by Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, meeting Britten's wish to feature soloists from Germany, Russia and Britain.

The record was hailed as a masterpiece by critics and public, quickly sold 200 thousand copies, and has remained in the catalogue ever since. This CD set has now been superceded by a remastered edition, released on the 15th of May 2006.

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Comment by LaurenceD SUBS:

This release contains the same recordings as an earlier one from 1990 (Naxos 8.550335), but now with the addition of Jeremy Nicholas' narration for Peter and the Wolf.

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion:
[YouTube Video]

Also released on Warner Classics, on 1st Feb 1991, Catalogue No: 5419715830

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Young adults, then!

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Comment by Redpunk:

This entry I made for them singing Folk Songs has a picture of them on the reverse of sleeve https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/trg81615

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

I wonder if this is an adult choir: YouTube is full of recordings of the Junior Broadland Singers, who performed under Angela Dugdale.