Peter Pears

J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - Elly Ameling, Helen Watts, Peter Pears
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Elly Ameling, Helen Watts, Peter Pears
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J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Elly Ameling – The Bach Recordings, Vol. 12
Elly Ameling, Helen Watts, Peter Pears
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Elly Ameling, Peter Pears, Hermann Prey
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Elly Ameling, Peter Pears, Hermann Prey
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Elly Ameling – The Bach Recordings, Vol. 9
Elly Ameling, Peter Pears, Hermann Prey
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Britten: The Canticles; A Birthday Hansel / Purcell: Sweeter than Roses - Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
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Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
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Britten: The Canticles; A Birthday Hansel / Purcell: Sweeter than Roses
Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
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The World of Peter Pears - Peter Pears
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The World of Peter Pears
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The World of Peter Pears
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Prokofiev: Quintet In G Minor; Seiber: Three Fragments - Peter Pears, Dorian Singers, Melos Ensemble
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Prokofiev: Quintet In G Minor; Seiber: Three Fragments Australian Eloquence Digital
Peter Pears, Dorian Singers, Melos Ensemble
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Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Winter Words; Who Are These Children? - Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, James Bowman
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Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Winter Words; Who Are These Children? Australian Eloquence Digital
Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, James Bowman
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Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute - Peter Pears
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Peter Pears - Anniversary Tribute 6 CDs
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BIOGRAFIA
Pears studied at the Royal College of Music on an opera scholarship and later with Elena Gerhardt (1883-1961). In 1934 he joined the BBC Singers and toured in the USA with them, becoming a member of the Glyndebourne chorus in 1938.
In 1939 he returned to America to give a number of recitals with Benjamin Britten, with whom he formed a lifelong partnership. Returning to Britain in 1943, Pears joined the Sadler's Wells Opera Company, where he created the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945.

In the following years Pears sang the leading tenor roles in Britten's operas, including The Rape of Lucretia (1946), Albert Herring (1947), Billy Budd (1951), Gloriana (1953), The Turn of the Screw (1954), A Midsummer Night's Dream (which he co-adapted with Britten) (1960), the dramatic church parable Curlew River (1964), Owen Wingrave (1970), and Death in Venice (1973). He was also renowned for his role as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion and for his interpretation of Elizabethan lute songs in partnership with Julian Bream. With Britten he founded and organized the Aldeburgh Festival (1948) and the Britten-Pears School for advanced studies in music.