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The Heart of the matter ; Songs for tenor and piano
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- Creator
- Benjamin Britten
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Mackie, Neil, performer
- Vignoles, Roger, performer
- Tuckwell, Barry, performer
- Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, narrator
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Heart of the matter
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Children and Sir Nameless
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. If it's ever spring again
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Songs. Selections
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. O that I had ne'er been married
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Epitaph
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. For a song
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. To lie flat on the back
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Night covers up the rigid land
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Dawtie's devotion
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Tradition
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Gully
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Fool's preferment
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Hears not my Phyllis
- Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Mock marriage
- Kin Lop Tse Collection
- Publication
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- Hayes, Middlesex, England : EMI, [1987]
- ℗1987
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc (54 min., 26 sec.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- OCLC
- ocm20376387
- Credits
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- Neil Mackie, tenor ; Barry Tuckwell, horn (in 1st work) ; Sir Peter Pears, narrator (in 1st work) ; Roger Vignoles, piano
- Compact disc (indexed); digital recording.
- Program notes by John Evans and texts inserted in container.
- Forms part of: Kin Lop Tse Collection.
- Recorded at No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, May 27 and July 18, 1986; tape of Sir Peter Pears made by BBC in 1985.
- The heart of the matter : a sequence of music with words by Edith Sitwell (26:35) -- Two songs by Thomas Hardy (6:04). The children and Sir Nameless ; If it's ever spring again -- Three early songs (3:17). Beware! ; O that I had ne'er been married ; Epitaph : the clerk -- For a song (2:05) -- Two songs by W.H. Auden (5:17). To lie flat on the back ; Night covers up the rigid land -- The oxen / arr. Pears (3:11) -- Three rhymes by William Soutar (2:39). Dawtie's devotion ; Tradition ; The gully -- Three realizations of Henry Purcell (5:19). I'll sail upon the dog-star ; The knotting song ; Man is for the woman made
Subjects
- Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964 -- Musical settings.
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Musical settings.
- Burra, Peter, 1909-1937 -- Musical settings.
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Musical settings.
- Soutar, William, 1898-1943 -- Musical settings.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Monologues with music (Voice with instrumental ensemble)
- English poetry -- 20th century -- Readings with music.