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Six duets [for] high and low voices. The figured basses realised by Benjamin Britten. The vocal parts edited by Peter Pears.

Notated music

London, New York, Boosey & Hawkes [c1961]

1961

1 item

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The Passion according to St. Matthew, for soloists and chorus (unacc.) Edited, with English translation, by Peter Pears and Imogen Holst.

Notated music

[London] Oxford University Press [c1965]

1965

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberJMF 77-57Item locationOffsite

Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording], 1947-1957.

Mixed material

1947-1957

1 resource

Available online

NYPL Digital Collections

Serenade, op. 31, for tenor, horn, and strings ; Winter words : op. 52 ; Seven sonnets of Michelangelo : op. 22 [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

London : London Jubilee, p1986.

1986-1945

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 1409Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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A time there was-- [videorecording] : a profile of Benjamin Britten / directed by Tony Palmer ; London Weekend Television in association with RM Productions, Munich.

Moving image

W. Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, c1980.

1980

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall number*LVH 16Item locationOffsite

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Albert Herring [sound recording] : op. 39 / [music by] Benjamin Britten ; [libretto by] Eric Crozier.

Audio

[London] : London Records, [1964]

1964

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 5112Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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L'enfance du Christ [sound recording] : op. 25 : trilogie sacrée / Berlioz.

Audio

England : Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, p1961.

1961

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 5117Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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St. Matthew Passion [sound recording] / J. S. Bach.

Audio

[S.l.] : Angel, [1962].

1962-1961

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 4588Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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The hymn of Jesus / Holst. The dream of Gerontius / Elgar [sound recording]

Audio

London : London, [c1989].

1989-1962

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 8674 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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A midsummer night's dream [microform] / Benjamin Britten.

Notated music

London : Hawkes & Son Ltd, c1966.

1966

0 resources

Méditation religieuse [sound recording] ; La mort d'Ophélie ; L'enfance du Christ ; Sara la baigneuse ; La mort de Cléopâtre / Berlioz.

Audio

New York, N.Y. : London, [c1989], p1961, 1968.

1989-1961

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 8663 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Peter Grimes [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.

Audio

London : London, p1959, [c1985].

1959-1985

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 8643 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Spring symphony [sound recording] ; Cantata academica ; Hymn to St. Cecilia / Britten.

Audio

New York, NY : London, [c1989], p1961.

1989-1961

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 8669 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Serenade, op. 31 for tenor, horn and strings ; Less [sic] illuminations : op. 18, for tenor and strings ; Nocturne, op. 60 for tenor, 7 obligato instruments and strings [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

London, England : London, p1960, 1970, [c1986]

1986-1959

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 2603 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Missa brevis in F, BWV 233 [sound recording] ; Mass in B minor, BWV 232 / Johann Sebastian Bach.

Audio

[Netherlands?] : Philips Classics, [c1993] p1965,1958.

1993-1957

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 9915 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Benjamin Britten : das Opernwerk / [von Peter Pears, et al.]

Text

Bonn : Boosey & Hawkes, c1955.

1955

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*MEC (Britten)-C (Benjamin Britten. 1955)Item locationOffsite

A midsummer night's dream; an opera in three acts adapted from William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Music by Benjamin Britten.

Text

London, New York, Boosey and Hawkes [1960]

1960

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*MZ (Britten, B. Midsummer night's dream)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Serande, op. 31, for tenor solo, horn and strings ; The young person's guide to the orchestra [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

New York, N.Y. : London : Distributed by Polygram Distributions, 1964.

1964

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LSRX 9964Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Unreleased performances of Kathleen Ferrier[ [sound recording] / introduction by Sir Peter Pears, C. B. E.

Audio

New York, N.Y. : Arabesque Recordings, p1979.

1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LRX 8152Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Billy Budd [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

Fort Lee, NJ : VAI Audio, p1993.

1993-1951

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 19657 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Great singers from the CBC [videorecording] / produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Moving image

Pleasantville, NY : Video Artists International, c1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall number*LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 9Item locationOffsite

Benjamin Britten in rehearsal & performance [videorecording] : with Peter Pears.

Moving image

Pleasantville, NY : VAI (Video Artists International) : CBC Home Video, c1999.

1999-1962

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall number*LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 14Item locationOffsite

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The rape of Lucretia [sound recording] : representative excerpts [from] 1946 Holland performance / Benjamin Britten.

Audio

[S.l.] : Music & Arts, 1995, p1981.

1995-1981

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 14100 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Mass in B minor [sound recording] = Messe in h-moll = Messe en si mineur / J.S. Bach.

Audio

[England] : BBC, p1998.

1998-1951

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 20764 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage 1921-1996. CD 11 [sound recording].

Audio

München : Col Legno, p1996.

1996-1954

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LDC 20247 (F) 11 of 12Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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A midsummer night's dream [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

[Netherlands] : Philips, p1996.

1996-1995

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 18470 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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War requiem [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

[London] : BBC Music, p2000.

2000-1969

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 25279 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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The carnival of the animals / Saint-Saëns. The young person's guide to the orchestra : (variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell) : op. 34 / Britten [sound recording].

Audio

[New York] : Angel, [196-?]

196

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 9777 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Twentieth century English songs. [sound recording].

Audio

England : Argo, [1964]

1964

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 10650 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Songs and part-songs [sound recording] / Gustav Holst.

Audio

[London] : Argo, [1968]

1968

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 10666 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Paroles Tissees / Lutoslawski. Four Ronsard Sonnets / Berkeley. The tentacles of the Dark Nebula / Bedford [sound recording].

Audio

[London] : Decca, [1974]

1974

2 items

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 20950 [Lyrics]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 20950 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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The little sweep [sound recording] (Let's make an opera) [op. 45. Libretto by Eric Crozier].

Audio

London : Decca Eclipse, [1975] p1956.

1975-1956

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 20919 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Lieder / Schubert [sound recording].

Audio

London : Decca Records, 1975.

1975

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 21041 [Texts]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 21041 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Madrigals [sound recording] / by Thomas Weelkes.

Audio

London : Decca, [1969], p1968.

1969

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 21030 [Texts]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 21030 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Mass in B minor / by Johann Sebastian Bach. [sound recording].

Audio

New York, N.Y. : Epic, [1958?]

1958

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 24206 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Requiem [sound recording] / Mozart.

Audio

[London] : BBC, [2003]

2003-1969

2 items

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 32595 [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 32595 [CD]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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St. Matthew passion [sound recording] / Bach.

Audio

[England] : London, 1965.

1965

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30648 [Texts]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30648 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Facade -- an entertainment [sound recording] (poems by Edith Sitwell).

Audio

[S.l.] : London, [1960?]

1960

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30570 [Texts]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30570 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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War requiem [sound recording] : op. 66 / Words from Missa pro defunctis ; poems by Wilfred Owen.

Audio

[England] : London, [1963]

1963

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30601 [Texts]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30601 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Curlew River [sound recording] : [a parable for church performance].

Audio

[England] : London, [1965]

1965

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30585 [Notes]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30585 [Libretto]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30585 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Symphony no. 1, op. 23 [sound recording] / Humphrey Searle. Elegy for viola and small orchestra ; Three fragments from A portrait of the artist as a young man : a chamber cantata / Matyas Seiber ; [text by] James Joyce.

Audio

New York, N.Y. : London, [1960]

1960

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30744 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Peter Grimes [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.

Audio

[London, England] : London, [1959?]

1959

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30628 [Libretto]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30628 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Die schöne Müllerin [sound recording] / Schubert ; poems by Wilhelm Müller.

Audio

[S.l.] : London, [195-?]

1950-1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 30532 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Saint Nicolas [sound recording] : op. 42 : cantata for tenor solo, mixed chorus, piano duet, strings, percussion and organ / Britten.

Audio

[New York?] : London, [1955]

1955

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 31130 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Seven sonnets of Michelangelo : op. 22 ; Winter words : op. 52 [sound recording] / Britten.

Audio

[New York?] : London, [1955]

1955

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 31110 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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