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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
LPO–0134
Released June 2025
Sinfonia da Requiem & Selections from The Prince of the Pagodas recorded at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 & 30 April 2022 respectively.
Winter Words recorded at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden on 17 July 2021.
Producers: Nick Parker, Floating Earth (Sinfonia da Requiem); Andrew Walton, K&A Productions (Winter Words & Selections from The Prince of the Pagodas)
Engineers: Mike Hatch, Floating Earth (Sinfonia da Requiem); Deborah Spanton, K&A Productions (Winter Words & Selections from The Prince of the Pagodas)
Executive Producers: Elena Dubinets, David Burke, Graham Wood
℗ 2025 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
© 2025 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
Edward Gardner conducts Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Winter Words, Op. 52 (orch. Robin Holloway)
The Prince of the Pagodas, Op. 57 (Selections from the ballet, abridged by Edward Gardner)
Edward Gardner conductor
Nicky Spence tenor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conducts a striking all-Britten compilation. The album features the powerful Sinfonia da Requiem, a dramatic new concert suite from The Prince of the Pagodas, and the world premiere recording of Robin Holloway’s orchestration of Winter Words. Captured live with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, these performances reveal Britten at his most intense, lyrical, and imaginative.
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Reviews
Rarely since Britten’s own classic Decca recording have I heard a performance of the Sinfonia da Requiem bristling with such visceral energy and structural inevitably as this new account from Edward Gardner and the LPO.
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[Nicky] Spence negotiates Britten’s often angular vocal lines with a deceptive ease and lyricism.
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