Benjamin Britten & Contemporaries (21)
Britten has been at odds with some of his contemporaries, but certainly not with Sjostakovitsj. Two soul mates.
photo: Mstislav Rostropovitsj, Britten & Sjostakovitsj
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
– parts from The Prodigal Son (1967)
Peter Pears, tenor
John Shirley-Quirk, bass bariton
Bryan Drake, bariton
Robert Tear, tenor
Benjamin Britten: English Opera Group Orchestra & Chorus
Decca 475 6040 (2005)
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj (1906-1975)
– Entre’acts from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op.29 (1934)
Mstislav Rostropovitsj: London Symphony Orchestra
EMI 9668382 (released 2009, recorded 1979)
– Concert for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra Op.35 (1933)
Guy Touvron, trumpet
Martha Argerich, piano
Jörg Faerber: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
DG 0289 439 8642 7 (1994)
– Jazz Suite no 2 (1938)
Ronald Brautigam, piano
Riccardo Chailly: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Decca 475 9983 (2008)
