Albert Herring - Recordings

Recordings

Currently, there are five audio recordings of Albert Herring and one DVD recording, with the following artists:

Year Cast:
(Albert,
Lady Billows,
Sid,
Nancy,
Mrs Herring,
Florence Pike,
Miss Wordsworth,
Mr Gedge,
Mr Upfold,
Superintendent Budd)		 Conductor,
Orchestra,
Notes		 Label,
Cat. No.,
Year (re)issued
1949 Peter Pears*,
Joan Cross*,
Denis Dowling,
Nancy Evans*,
Catherine Lawson,
Gladys Parr*,
Margaret Ritchie*,
Otakar Kraus,
Roy Ashton*,
Norman Lumsden*
 Benjamin Britten,
English Opera Group Orchestra
(Live recording of a performance in the Theatre Royal, Copenhagen, on 15 September)


  • Members of the original cast.
 Nimbus
NI 5824/6
(2008)
1964 Peter Pears,
Sylvia Fisher,
Joseph Ward,
Catherine Wilson,
Sheila Rex,
Johanna Peters,
April Cantelo,
John Noble,
Edgar Evans,
Owen Brannigan
 Benjamin Britten,
English Chamber Orchestra		 Decca
421 849-2
(1989)
1985 John Graham-Hall,
Patricia Johnson,
Alan Opie,
Jean Rigby,
Patricia Kern,
Felicity Palmer,
Elizabeth Gale,
Derek Hammond-Stroud,
Alexander Oliver,
Richard Van Allan
 Bernard Haitink,
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Video recording of a performance at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera)



Director: Peter Hall
Designer: John Gunter

 Warner Music Vision
5046 78790-2
1996 Christopher Gillett,
Josephine Barstow,
Gerald Finley,
Ann Taylor,
Della Jones,
Felicity Palmer,
Susan Gritton,
Peter Savidge,
Stuart Kale,
Robert Lloyd		 Steuart Bedford,
Northern Sinfonia		 Naxos Records
8.660170/8
(2003)
1996 Christopher Pfund,
Kirsten Dickerson,
Samuel Hepler,
Nancy Maria Balach,
Barbara Kokolus,
Tara Venditti,
Lynette Binford,
Scott Bearden,
James Powell,
Scott Altman
 David Gilbert,
Manhattan School of Music Orchestra		 Vox Records
VXP2 7900
2001 James Gilchrist,
Susan Bullock,
Roderick Williams,
Pamela Helen Stephen,
Anne Collins,
Sally Burgess,
Rebecca Evans,
Alan Opie,
Robert Tear,
Stephen Richardson
 Richard Hickox,
City of London Sinfonia		 Chandos
CHAN 10036
(2003)

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