Composers Performers

Peter Pears

Peter Pears (1910–1986)

tenor · Great Britain

Anonymous, - English Folk Songs

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Cantata “Es ist euch gut, daß ich hingehe”, BWV 108

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Cantata “Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ”, BWV 67

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Cantata “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott”, BWV 127

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Cantata “Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben”, BWV 102

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Cantata “Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kommt”, BWV 151

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Oratorio “Johannes-Passion”, BWV 245

Bach, Johann Sebastian - Oratorio “Matthäus-Passion”, BWV 244

Berlioz, Hector - Sacred Trilogy “The Childhood of Christ”, Op. 25

Brahms, Johannes - “Liebeslieder Waltzes”, 18 waltzes for vocal quartet and piano four hands, Op. 52

Britten, Benjamin - A cantata “Saint Nicolas” for tenor solo, mixed chorus, piano duet, organ, strings & percussion, Op. 42

Britten, Benjamin - Cantata misericordium for solos, small chorus and orchestra, Op. 69

Britten, Benjamin - Canticle No. 2 “Abraham and Isaac” for alto and tenor voices and piano, Op. 51

Britten, Benjamin - Canticle No. 3 “Still falls the Rain” for tenor, horn and piano, Op. 55

Britten, Benjamin - Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings, Op. 60

Britten, Benjamin - Opera “Curlew River”, a Parable for Church Performance, Op. 71

Britten, Benjamin - Opera “The Burning Fiery Furnace”, a Parable for Church Performance, Op. 77

Britten, Benjamin - Opera “The Prodigal Son”, A Parable for Church Performance, Op. 81

Britten, Benjamin - Opera “The Rape of Lucretia”, Op. 37

Britten, Benjamin - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31

Britten, Benjamin - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22

Britten, Benjamin - Song Cycle “Les Illuminations” for high voice and string orchestra, Op. 18

Britten, Benjamin - “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, opera, Op. 64

Britten, Benjamin - “Albert Herring”, opera, Op. 39

Britten, Benjamin - “Billy Budd”, opera, Op. 50

Britten, Benjamin - “Death in Venice”, opera in two acts, Op. 88

Britten, Benjamin - “Owen Wingrave”, opera, Op. 85

Britten, Benjamin - “Peter Grimes”, opera in a prologue and three acts, Op. 33

Britten, Benjamin - “Songs from the Chinese”, song cycle for voice and guitar, Op. 58

Britten, Benjamin - “The Holy Sonnets of John Donne”, for high voice and piano, Op. 35

Britten, Benjamin - “The Turn of the Screw”, opera, Op. 54

Britten, Benjamin - “War Requiem” for soloists, choruses and orchestras, Op. 66

Britten, Benjamin - “Winter Words”, for high voice and piano, Op. 52

Campion, Thomas - Song `Come let us sound with melodie the praises`

Campion, Thomas - Song `Fair, if you expect admiring`

Campion, Thomas - Song `Shall i come, sweet love?`

Debussy, Claude - Three Ballades of François Villon for voice and piano, CD 126 (L 119)

Dowland, John - Songs from the collection `A Musicall Banquet` : No.11, In darkness let me dwell

Dowland, John - The First Booke of Songs or Ayres : № 4 `If my complaints`

Dowland, John - The First Booke of Songs or Ayres : №19 `Awake, sweet love`

Dowland, John - The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres : № 1 `I saw my Lady weep`

Dowland, John - The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres : № 3 `Sorrow, sorrow, stay`

Dowland, John - The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres : №12 `Fine knacks for ladies`

Dowland, John - The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires : № 9. `What if I never speed`

Elgar, Edward - Oratorio “The Dream of Gerontius” for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op. 38

Ford, Thomas - `Come, Phyllis, come`

Ford, Thomas - `Fair, sweet, cruel`

Handel, George Frideric - Oratorio “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”, HWV 55

Handel, George Frideric - Pastoral Masque “Acis and Galatea”, HWV 49a

Holst, Gustav Theodore - Four Songs for Voice and Violin, op.35

Ireland, John - Song Cycle `Songs Sacred and Profane`

Ireland, John - Song Cycle `The Land of Lost Content`

Ireland, John - Song `Hawthorne Time`

Ireland, John - Song `I Have 12 Oxen`

Ireland, John - Two Songs

Lutoslawski, Witold - Paroles tissées

Morley, Thomas - Come sorrow, come

Morley, Thomas - I saw my lady weeping

Morley, Thomas - Mistress mine, well may you fare

Morley, Thomas - Thirsis and Milla

Morley, Thomas - What if my mistress now

Morley, Thomas - With my Love my life was nestled

Morley, Thomas - `It was a lover and his lass`

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Cantata “Die ihr unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt” for voice and piano, KV 619

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Requiem in D minor, KV 626

Pilkington, Francis - Rest Sweet Nymphs (1605)

Puccini, Giacomo - Opera “Turandot”, SC 91

Purcell, Henry - Arias

Purcell, Henry - Opera “Dido and Aeneas”, Z 626

Purcell, Henry - “The Fairy Queen”, semi-opera, Z 629

Rosseter, Philip - Song `What is a day?`

Rosseter, Philip - Song `When Laura smiles`

Rosseter, Philip - Sweet, come again

Rosseter, Philip - What then is love but mourning?

Rosseter, Philip - Whether men do laugh or weep

Schubert, Franz - “Abendstern”, song for voice and piano, D. 806

Schubert, Franz - “An die Entfernte”, song for voice and piano, D. 765

Schubert, Franz - “Atys”, song for voice and piano, D. 585

Schubert, Franz - “Auflösung”, song for voice and piano, D. 807

Schubert, Franz - “Die schöne Müllerin”, song cycle for voice and piano, D. 795; Op. 25

Schubert, Franz - “Ganymed”, song for voice and piano, D. 544; Op. 19/3

Schubert, Franz - “Winterreise”, song cycle for voice and piano, D. 911; Op. 89

Schumann, Robert - Five Lieder und Gesänge for voice and piano, Op. 127

Schumann, Robert - Scenes from Goethe’s “Faust” for soloists, chorus and orchestra, WoO 3

Schumann, Robert - “Dichterliebe (A Poet’s Love)”: Song cycle for voice and piano, Op. 48

Schumann, Robert - “Liederkreis”: 12 songs after Eichendorff for voice and piano, Op. 39

Seiber, Matyas - Three fragments of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce for narrator, mixed choir and ensemble (1957)

Stravinsky, Igor - Opera-oratorio “Oedipus Rex”, K047

Telemann, Georg Philipp - Cantata “Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt”, TVWV 1:877 (BWV 160)

Tippett, Michael - Cantata `Boyhood`s End` for Tenor & Piano (1943)