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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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMG 76-1139Offsite
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 77-57Offsite
  • Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording], 1947-1957.

    • Mixed material
    • 1947-1957
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c30d4ee0-5099-0136-fc65-041fd87cbf8e
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 1409Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH 16Offsite
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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
    Audio *LZR 5112Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 5117Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 4588Performing 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
    Audio *LDC 8674 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Le songe d'une nuit d'été : opéra en trois actes = A midsummer night's dream / livret de Benjamin Britten et Peter Pears d'après le texte de William Shakespeare.

    • Text
    • [Caen] : Théâtre de Caen ; [Arles] : Actes Sud, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 96-459Offsite
  • A midsummer night's dream [microform], op. 64 : an opera in three acts / Benjamin Britten.

    • Notated music
    • 1960 -1966.
    • 1960-1966
  • A midsummer night's dream [microform] / Benjamin Britten.

    • Notated music
    • London : Hawkes & Son Ltd, c1966.
    • 1966
  • 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
    Audio *LDC 8663 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Peter Grimes [sound recording] / Benjamin Britten.

    • Audio
    • London : London, p1959, [c1985].
    • 1959-1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 8643 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Les illuminations [microform] : op. 18 : soprano or tenor solo & string orchestra / Benjamin Britten ; words by Arthur Rimbaud.

    • Notated music
    • 1939.
    • 1939
  • Spring symphony [sound recording] ; Cantata academica ; Hymn to St. Cecilia / Britten.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : London, [c1989], p1961.
    • 1989-1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 8669 (F)Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 2603 (F)Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 9915 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano in F sharp minor, opus 67 [sound recording] / Beach. Canticle V: The death of Saint Narcissus : opus 89 / Britten. Introduction and allegro for harp, strings, flute and clarinet / Ravel. On Wenlock edge : a cycle of six songs for tenor, piano and string orchestra / Vaughan Williams.

    • Audio
    • Nov. 7, 1975.
    • 1975
  • Benjamin Britten : das Opernwerk / [von Peter Pears, et al.]

    • Text
    • Bonn : Boosey & Hawkes, c1955.
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MEC (Britten)-C (Benjamin Britten. 1955)Offsite
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MZ (Britten, B. Midsummer night's dream)Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 9964Performing 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
    Audio *LRX 8152Performing 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
    Audio *LDC 19657 (F)Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 9Offsite
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 14Offsite
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 14100 (F)Performing 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
    Audio *LDC 20764 (F)Performing 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
    Audio *LDC 20247 (F) 11 of 12Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 18470 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • War requiem [sound recording] / Britten.

    • Audio
    • [London] : BBC Music, p2000.
    • 2000-1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 25279 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen [sound recording] : aria from Cantata no. 51 for soprano, trumpet, strings and organ / Johann Sebastian Bach. Quintet for strings and harp, "Cantilena e scherz" / Gian Carlo Menotti. Folk songs of Britain / arranged by Benjamin Britten. Syrinx : for solo flute / Claude Debussy. Facade / William Walton ; poems by Dame Edith Sitwell.

    • Audio
    • Mar. 15, 1977.
    • 1977
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 9777 [Disc]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 10650 [Disc]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 10666 [Disc]Performing 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 20950 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 20950 [Lyrics]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 20919 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Lieder / Schubert [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • London : Decca Records, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 21041 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 21041 [Texts]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 21030 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 21030 [Texts]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 24206 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Requiem [sound recording] / Mozart.

    • Audio
    • [London] : BBC, [2003]
    • 2003-1969
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 32595 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 32595 [Notes]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30648 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30648 [Texts]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30570 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30570 [Texts]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30601 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30601 [Texts]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30585 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30585 [Libretto]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30585 [Notes]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30744 [Disc]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30628 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 30628 [Libretto]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 30532 [Disc]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 31130 [Disc]Performing 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
    Audio *LZR 31110 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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