Organ – Simon Preston. Recorded: January 1963, London.

Dido: Claire Watson; Aeneas: Peter Pears; Belinda: Jeannette Sinclair; Sorceress: Arda Mandikian; 2nd Women: Patricia Clark; Witches: Jean Allister, Rosemary Philips; Spirit: John Hahessy; 1st Sailor: Michael Ronayne. PURCELL SINGERS. English Opera Group Orchestra. George Malcom, Harpsichord Continuo. BBC Studios, 29/30 September 1959. Realized and conducted by B.Britten.

1958.

Recorded: March 16-17, 1954, London.

Billy Budd - Peter Glossop, Captain Vere - Peter Pears, John Claggart - Michael Langdon, Mr. Redburn - John Shirley-Quirk, Mr. Flint - Bryan Drake, Mr. Ratcliffe - David Kelly, Red Whiskers - Gregory Dempsey, Donald - David Bowman, Dansker - Owen Brannigan, Novice - Robert Tear, Squeak - Robert Bowman, Bosun - Delme Bryn-Jones, First Mate - Eric Garrett, Second Mate - Norman Lumsden, Maintop - Nigel Rogers, Novice`s Friend - Benjamin Luxon, Cabin Boy - James Newby, Arthur Jones - James Coleby.

Alfreda Hodgson - mezzo-soprano. Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra. June 20, 1971.

On Engl. Peter Pears - Evangelist, Gwynne Howell - Jesus, John Shirley-Quirk - Pilate, Heather Harper - soprano, Alfreda Hodgson - alto, Robert Tear - tenor, John Shirley-Quirk - bass. Philip Leger - harpsichord, Timothy Farrell - organ, Kenneth Heath - cello, Andrian Beers - double bass. Continuo realisation - Benjamin Britten. Wandsworth School Boys` Choir. 1972. Translate - Peter Pears, Imogen Holst.

Lucretia - Janet Baker, Male Chorus - Peter Pears, Female Chorus - Heather Harper, Tarquinius - Benjamin Luxon, Collantius - John Shirley-Quirk, Junius - Bryan Drake, Lucia - Jenny Hill, Bianca - Elizabeth Bainbridge. July 1970.

Evangelist- Peter Pears; Jesus- Hermann Prey; Arias, 1st Maid, Pilatus` wife - Elly Ameling; Arias, 2nd Maid - Marga Höffgen; Arias - Fritz Wunderlich; Arias - Tom Krause; Petrus, High Priest, Pilatus - Heinz Blankenburg; Judas - August Messthaler. Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben (Chorus Master: Gerhard Wilhelm). 1964.

Continued. Discussion.

Soprano - Suzanne Danco, baritone - Bruce Boyce, bass - Norman Walker. Boyd Neel Orchestra. BBC Singers (Chorus Master - Leslie Woodgate). Recorded: July 17, 1951, London.

Aldeburgh, June 22, 1977. Live.

5. Depression (Po Chü-i)

Recorded: May 23-24, 1963, London.

Heather Harper - soprano, Thomas Hensley - baritone. Recorded: 1968, 14 June, Live at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh Festival.

Peter Pears (Gerontius,tenor), Yvonne Minton (Angel, mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (Priest, Angel of Agony, bass-baritone). The Choir of King`s College, Cambridge. Rec. 1972.

Peter Pears - Oedipus, Martha Moedl - Jocasta, Heinz Rehfuss - Creon, Otto von Rohr - Tiresias, Helmut Krebs - shepherd, Jean Cocteau - narrator. October 8, 1951, Cologne & May 1952, Paris (narration).

The Raids, 1940, Nignt and Down (Text: Edith Sitwell).
Peter Pears, Tenor; Dennis Brain, Horn; BENJAMIN BRITTEN, Piano. Live in Aldeburgh Church, 21 June 1956.

Owen Wingrave - Benjamin Luxon, Spencer Coyle - John Shirley-Quirk, Lechmere - Nigel Douglas, Miss Wingrave - Sylvia Fisher, Mrs. Coyle - Heather Harper, Mrs. Julien - Jennifer Vyvyan, Kate - Janet Baker, General Sir Philip Wingrave - Peter Pears. Narrator - Peter Pears. December 1970.

September 21&22, 1959, Alexander Murray(flute), Gervase de Peyer(clarinet), Roger Lord(English horn), William Waterhouse(bassoon), Barry Tuckwell(French horn), Osian Ellis(harp), Denis Biyth(timpani), Pierce, Britten, London CO

Recorded: November 1967, UK.

Britten, Fischer-Dieskau, Pierce, London CO, London Choir, December 13&14, 1963

Aldeburgh, 22.06.1977.

`I Attempt from Love`s Sickness to Fly` (1695). rec. 1963

Aldeburgh, 1974.

J. Brim - lute. Recording of 1958

Contralto - Antonia Fahberg. Members of the Orchestra of Münchner Staatsoper (actually Bayerisches Staatsorchester). April 1958, Munich.

Contralto - Lilian Benningsen. Members of the Orchestra of Münchner Staatsoper (actually Bayerisches Staatsorchester). April 1958, Munich.

Elsie Morison, Jacqueline Delman, Elizabeth Harwood - sopranos

Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Recorded: June 26, 1965, Aldeburgh Festival.

Peter Pears, Murray Perahia. Aldeburgh, 1974.

Instrumental ensemble. Recorded: September 15-16, 1958, Munich.

1977, live Aldeburgh performance.

Contralto - Lilian Benningsen. Members of the Orchestra of Münchner Staatsoper (actually Bayerisches Staatsorchester). Recorded: April 1958, Munich.

Recorded 1958

Joan Sutherland - Galatea, Peter Pears - Acis, Owen Brannigan - Polyphemus, David Galliver - Damon. St. Anthony Singers. Philomusica of London. Thurston Dart - harpsichord. Recording - May June 1959, London.

J. Brim - lute. Recording 1956

Baritone - John Shirley-Quirk. Wandsworth School Boys` Choir. Recorded: December 22, 1968, Aldeburgh Festival.

1955 - Aldeburgh Festival Choir, Girls Choir of St. John Leman School Beccles, Boys` Choir of Ipswich School, Three soloists from St. Mary-the-Tower Ipswich

Broadcast - 18 May 1941 - ISCM Festival New York

Recording 1956

Recorded 1956

1956.

Recording of 1958

Recording of 1958

Recording 1956

Recording 1956

1956.

`Dorian Singers`

Recording of 1958

Recording of 1958

1958.

Recorded 1956

Recording 1956

Recording of 1958

Recorded 1958

Recording of 1958

Entry 1958

Recorded 1958

1964.

1958.

1966, Koeln

Recording of 1958

1958.

Recording 1956

Recorded: June 18, 1969, Suffolk, UK.

Recorded: June 18, 1969, Suffolk, UK.

1958.

1952, UK.

J. Brim - lute. Recording of 1958

Recorded: June 18, 1969, Suffolk, UK.

Mary – Elsie Morison, Centurion – Edgar Fleet, Narrator - Peter Pears, Joseph – John Cameron, Herod and Housholder – Joseph Rouleau, Polydorus - John Frost. The St. Anthony Singers. Goldsbrough Orchestra. Early 1960`s.