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Owen Wingrave Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo

Title
  1. Owen Wingrave [sound recording] : Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo / Britten.
Published by
  1. New York, N.Y. : London, p1993.
Author
  1. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

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Additional authors
  1. Piper, Myfanwy.
  2. Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
  3. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.
  4. Luxon, Benjamin.
  5. Shirley-Quirk, John.
  6. Douglas, Nigel.
  7. Fisher, Sylvia.
  8. Harper, Heather.
  9. Vyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974.
  10. Baker, Janet.
  11. Pears, Peter, 1910-1986.
  12. Vishnevskai͡a, Galina, 1926-2012.
  13. Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007.
  14. Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
  15. English Chamber Orchestra. prf
Description
  1. 2 sound discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform title
  1. Works. Selections
Alternative title
  1. Works.
  2. Hölderlin fragments.
  3. Poet's echo.
Subject
  1. Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 > Musical settings
  2. Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 > Musical settings
  3. James, Henry, 1843-1916
  4. Operas
  5. Song cycles
  6. Songs (High voice) with piano
Contents
  1. Six Hölderlin fragments (11:44). Menschenbeifall ; Die Heimat ; Sokrates und Alcibiades ; Die Jugend ; Hälfte des Lebens ; Die Linien des Lebens -- The poet's echo (14:48). Ekho (Echo) ; Ya dumal, serdtse pozabilo (My heart, I thought you had forgotten) ; Angel ; Solovyei i roza (The nightingale and the rose) ; Epigramma (Epigram) ; Stikhi, sochinyonniye nochyu vo vremya besonnitsi (Lines written during a sleepless night).
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. First work an opera, the 2nd-3rd works song cycles.
  2. Libretto of 1st work by Myfanwy Piper, based on the story by Henry James; texts of 2nd-3rd works from poems of Hölderlin and Pushkin.
  3. Compact discs.
  4. Originally issued on analog discs.
  5. Eds. recorded: Faber Music Ltd. (1st, 3rd works), Boosey & Hawkes (2nd work).
  6. Duration of 1st work: 107 min.
  7. Program notes by Philip Brett in English, French, German and Italian, libretto of 1st work, and texts of 2nd-3rd works (the latter in transliteration) with English translations laid in container.
Event (note)
  1. Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London, Dec. 1970 (1st work) and Nov. 1961 (2nd work) and The Maltings, Snape, July 1968 (3rd work).
Language (note)
  1. Sung in English (1st work), German (2nd work) and Russian (3rd work).