About Sir Peter Pears
Peter Pears From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Pears Born 22 June 1910 Farnham, Surrey, England Died 3 April 1986 (aged 75) Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England Occupation tenor Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE (pronounced /ˈpɪərz/ "peerz";[1] 22 June 1910 – 3 April 1986) was an English tenor and the life partner of the composer Benjamin Britten. He was born at Farnham, and educated at Lancing College. He went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, but left without taking his degree.
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Pastoral - The Day's Grown Old
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Nocturne - The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Elegy - O Rose, Thou Art Sick
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Dirge - This Ae Night
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Requiem aeternam - "What Passing Bells For These Who Die As Cattle?"
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - I. Fanfare
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 1. Gute Nacht
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
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The Indian Queen, Z. 630: "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" - Live
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Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31 - Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VI. Interlude
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31: Dirge - Anonymous
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Puccini: Turandot / Act 2 - Un giuramento atroce mi costringe
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The Salley Gardens - Live
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Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op.31: Nocturne - The Splendour Falls On Castle Walls
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Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op.31: Pastoral - The Day's Grown Old
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Dies Irae - "Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up To Death"
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 5. Der Lindenbaum
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 2. Die Wetterfahne
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 3. Gefrorne Tränen
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 4. Erstarrung
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Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31: Elegy - O Rose, Thou Art Sick
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Traditional: The Foggy Foggy Dew
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IIIa. Phrase
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - II. Villes
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1 - "How now my love?"
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op.37 / Act 1 - Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart
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Fair, Sweet, Cruel
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Dies Irae - "Move Him Into the Sun"
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Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31: Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
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Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31: Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IV. Royauté
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - IIIb. Antique
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - V. Marine
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VII. Being beauteous
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"Move Him Into the Sun"
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 7. Auf dem Flusse
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"What Passing Bells For These Who Die As Cattle?"
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Britten: Death in Venice, Op.88 / Act 1 - My mind beats on
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Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Reading: The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low - Fanfare
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 6. Wasserflut
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Pausanias, The Betrayer of His Country, Z. 585: "Sweeter Than Roses" - Live
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"It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped"
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Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18 - VIII. Parade
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Serenade for tenor, horn & strings, Op.31: Dirge - This Ae Night
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"Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up To Death"
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The Lincolnshire Poacher
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Canticle III, Op. 55, "Still Falls the Rain - the Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn" (arr. P. Pears): Song: We are the darkness in the heat of the day
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Agnus Dei - "One Ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part"
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Schubert: Winterreise, D.911 - 9. Irrlicht
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