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Owen Wingrave Hölderlin fragments ; The poet's echo

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

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Additional Authors
  • Piper, Myfanwy.
  • Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.
  • Luxon, Benjamin.
  • Shirley-Quirk, John.
  • Douglas, Nigel.
  • Fisher, Sylvia.
  • Harper, Heather.
  • Vyvyan, Jennifer, 1925-1974.
  • Baker, Janet.
  • Pears, Peter, 1910-1986.
  • Vishnevskai͡a, Galina, 1926-2012.
  • Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007.
  • Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
  • English Chamber Orchestra. prf
Description
2 sound discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Works.
  • Hölderlin fragments.
  • Poet's echo.
Subjects
Note
  • First work an opera, the 2nd-3rd works song cycles.
  • 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.
  • Compact discs.
  • Originally issued on analog discs.
  • Eds. recorded: Faber Music Ltd. (1st, 3rd works), Boosey & Hawkes (2nd work).
  • Duration of 1st work: 107 min.
  • 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)
  • Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London, Dec. 1970 (1st work) and Nov. 1961 (2nd work) and The Maltings, Snape, July 1968 (3rd work).
Language (note)
  • Sung in English (1st work), German (2nd work) and Russian (3rd work).
Contents
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).
OCLC
  • 503442047
  • ocn503442047
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries