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Britten: Noye's Fludde and The Golden Vanity

Owen Brannigan, Sheila Rex, Trevor Anthony, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Benjamin Britten (piano)

English Opera Group orchestra, Norman del Mar, Russell Burgess

Britten wrote these two works for children, but don't imagine that they're cosy and childish.
Many of his friends thought that there remained much of the child in him, and this clearly comes... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
  • Catalogue No: 4363972
  • Label: Decca
  • Length: 65 minutes

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Britten: Noye's Fludde

Work length47:59
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  • Trevor Anthony (speaker), Owen Brannigan (bass (vocal)), Sheila Rex (mezzo-soprano), David Pinto (boy soprano), Merlin Channon (assistant conductor), Eileen O'Donovan (soprano), Gillian Saunders (soprano), Marie-Therese Pinto (soprano), Kathleen Petch (soprano), Caroline Clack (soprano), Stephen Alexander (boy soprano), Margaret Hawes (soprano), Darian Angadi (boy soprano), Patricia Garrod (soprano)
  • The Congregation, English Opera Group, Chorus Of Animals
  • Merlin Channon, Norman Del Mar
  • Recorded: 1961-07-04
  • Recording Venue: Orford Church, Suffolk

"Lord Jesus, Think On Me"

Track length3:08
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"I God, That All This Worlde Hath Wroughte"

Track length2:05
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"Have Done, You Men and Wemen All"

Track length2:38
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"Now In the Name Of God I Will Begyne"

Track length4:17
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"Noye, Noye, Take Thou Thy Company"

Track length6:06
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"Wiffe, Come In! Why Standes Thou Their?"

Track length5:09
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"Ha! Children, Me Thinkes My Botte Removes"

Track length8:17
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"Now Forty Dayes Are Fullie Gone"

Track length5:09
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"Noye, Take Thy Wife Anone"

Track length2:39
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"Noye, Heare I Behette Thee a Heste"

Track length1:14
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"The Spacious Firmament On High"

Track length7:17
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Excerpt, Britten: The Golden Vanity, Op. 78

Work length17:34
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  • Mark Emney (boy soprano), John Wojciechowski (boy soprano), Barnaby Jago (boy soprano), Adrian Thompson (boy soprano), Terry Lovell (boy soprano), Benjamin Britten (piano)
  • Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
  • Russell Burgess
  • Recorded: 1969-10-11
  • Recording Venue: St. John's Smith Square, London

"There was a Ship came from the North Country"

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"Then Up Spake the Cabin-Boy"

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"Casting His Clothes Off, He Dived Into the Sea"

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"They Laid Him On the Deck"

Track length3:17
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