What a Company !! Really seldom & Raritet's! Thanks , That's awesome!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@janetkenny1974
3 жыл бұрын
I don't believe that a better performance is possible. I'm amazed that this performance happened. Sometimes miracles happen.
@stephenhunt8756
2 жыл бұрын
I stumbled upon this upload...thank goodness! This is one of the all-time great performances by any musicians, of any kind of music. Thank you to pinaopera
@frank1509
3 жыл бұрын
Merveilleux!
@janetkenny1974
Жыл бұрын
One year later I endorse my previous comment. Further down this thread someone suggested that a closer blend of voices would be better. I strongly disagree. Like a string quartet each instrument adds its individual sound. The emotional and tonal richness in this performance is better than I ever hoped to hear.
@fredwanger9337
4 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful surprise! Baker and Arrau together😘
@wolfwind1
4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Gorgeous. And LIVE! Thank you so much for sharing this recording!
@jefolson6989
Жыл бұрын
Britten was a marvelous pianist and conductor. I wish there were more
@lucianovalle7178
6 жыл бұрын
Che meraviglia!
@bigcedock
9 жыл бұрын
This is what music is, and always should be -- performed, and experienced with love and wonder, together. Marvelous -- if one could just have been there, what a joy!
@igorkennaway3173
3 жыл бұрын
I WAS there...! And that concert remains as one of the highlights of attending concerts. Years later, I worked with Peter Pears accompanying him in a Bach course at the Britten-Pears School at the Snape Maltings in July 1978. I had been introduced to him by John Shirley-Quirk with whom I had given a live broadcast recital for BBC Radio 3. And working with Peter and playing Benjamin Britten’s piano in The Red House, remains to this day a wonderful memory
@chileanbaritone
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much really. As a singer and compatriot maestro Arrau, I thank him for you.
@chierikurita1893
3 жыл бұрын
I sang when I was a student. It's very nostalgic and memories come back. Thank you for the wonderful recording‼︎
@berlinzerberus
12 жыл бұрын
My heart beats faster! :-) Two of my all time favorites: Janet Baker and Claudio Arrau!! Thank you pianopera for this wonderful gift!!! ..Ya, B r a h m s...!
@beth_levin_piano
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@morinoroba
12 жыл бұрын
Britten's playing is very tasteful, very natural too. I enjoyed it, subarashi.
@JeanJacques1936
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely great ! Of couse, with such artists...
@PuntoPerro
9 жыл бұрын
Outstanding! Thank you, pianopera for your generosity. This are wonderful musicians interpreting marvelous music.
@singinggardener
7 жыл бұрын
Wow. So beautifully sung!
@AgnesRegina
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely gorgeous. Such a delight to hear two of my favorite inspirations (Arrau and Baker) among the performers! Hope to be able to perform these someday - either as pianist or mezzo! :) Thank you for sharing!
@vulkanosaure
7 жыл бұрын
i can hear arrau's touch, such a delight
@andrewandreasen1669
8 жыл бұрын
I am new to these wonderful songs. Just learning about song cycles.
@bvbwv3
9 жыл бұрын
May I add my thanks to pianopera for this extraordinary uploading.
@pianopera
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, at Snape Maltings! Rostropovich couldn't come, and they "found" Arrau at the last moment...
@sprinter846
12 жыл бұрын
I agree completely with your perceptive comment , but believe me, you don't want "...a more blended sound." The piece works best when, as is the case here, it is sung by four distinctive vocal personalities.
@janetkenny1974
Жыл бұрын
I agree absolutely Arthur Keeler. The conversation is the musical point as well as the musical point. This is wonderful!
@ralph0149
9 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a lineup! Where do you people find these gems? In any case a applaud you and thank you for sharing it with us.
@ilyaibrahimovic9842
4 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly - "it actually happened?! Such a gathering of greatness?!"
@heidihorvat1
8 жыл бұрын
thank you. I haven't heard these since I sang them oh 20 odd years ago.
@Barbapippo
12 жыл бұрын
Wow, this upload is really extraordinay! many, many thanks
@jefolson6989
Жыл бұрын
Luxury casting! And Britten plays beautifully, despite his famous detestation of Brahms music . ( peter pears did a Brahms lieder recital with Clifford Curzon because Britten refused to play it.
@campari5
12 жыл бұрын
...eine sehr schöne Interpretation.
@kerbal29anen
8 жыл бұрын
Tom Hemsley taught me at the RNCM after John Cameron. Both wonderful baritones. As a college student, I with Evelyn Nicholson, Margaretha Orvelius and Philip Creasey performed these at the RNCM. We must have been well taught. This performance is uncannily like ours, but tonight is the first time I have listened to this. Such a treat!
@unabarry5496
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Jeremy! I had Basil Young, John Cameron and then got to know Tom Hemsley, and had lessons for many years from Heather and from Josephine Veasey - the only two alive and frail from that line up of wonderful singers and teachers. I have been with Neil Howlett for the last six years, and had such joy in watching him at ENO as a young music student. There has never been a better and more practical book on singing than Tom Hemsley's book - Singing and the Imagination.
@paulprocopolis
12 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating, with never a dull moment - and what a great line-up! Each singer was a great artist in his/her own right, but four less individual, distinctive voices might actually produce a more blended sound. Arrau and Britten as duettists seem almost as unlikely a pairing as Richter and Britten … but what I'd give to have been there! ('there' being presumably the Aldeburgh festival?),
@MaMa-rx5jz
12 жыл бұрын
C'est merveilleux )
@marie-armelle458
9 жыл бұрын
quelle palette de chanteurs...
@Twentythousandlps
7 жыл бұрын
Beautifully paced (no doubt by Britten) - Harper, Pears and Hemsley can also be heard together on the London Records Midsummer Night's Dream and the BBC-TV War Requiem (with Britten as co-conductor), on youtube. Yes, Britten mostly hated Brahms, and so he was on the Aldeburgh Index, along with Beethoven, Strauss, Stravinsky e tutti quanti...
@user-bc9mn7gq2c
7 жыл бұрын
Not sure it's that beautifully paced...no more so than a lot of commercial recordings. It would be interesting to know who is piano primo...Pears is out of his element and I can hardly hear Baker in "Am Donau Strande;" Men are too loud there. And the piano (nice as it is) over-balances the voices at times, something Brahms has obviously taken great pains to prevent. But (all personal preferences aside) how can anyone like Pears in "O die Frauen" (mannered diminuendos) or "Wenn ich ein huebscher" (no spontaneity, no panache, no STYLE!) ??
@janetkenny1974
6 ай бұрын
I suspect that Peter Pears and Claudio Arrau plotted together to persuade Benjamin Britten that his prejudice against Brahms was mistaken. Britten certainly plays beautifully. I suspect he liked Brahms more than he admitted.
@pianopera
12 жыл бұрын
Douitashimashite! ;-)
@MrMitchgries
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing beauty and clarity. Did Britten play the lower register ?
@louiserestall3742
8 жыл бұрын
...the balance of the voices is very nice. I personally don't like the 'scooping' towards a note for the purposes of expression (so, fortunately, it doesn't happen often).
@lockjiang
3 жыл бұрын
this is rare, Arrau rarely had chamber recordings at all, but Rostropovich, why?
@McTierfreund
10 жыл бұрын
10:23 Donaustrande
@michaeldunlap2693
2 жыл бұрын
A wonderful performance. I found Harper's liberal use of portamenti a bit much.
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