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ReferenceBBA/DECCA/TO/1964

Title

Correspondence to Benjamin Britten from Decca Recording Company

Date1964

DescriptionIncludes typescript list of artists and characters for Albert Herring with their availibility for recording and a handwritten calendar with dates planned for recording different scenes, as well as a typescript summary of reviews for War Requiem in the Dutch Press, and a letter to Britten from the Dutch branch of Decca with news that War Requiem won an Edison award.

Also includes scheduling the recordings of the Walton song with Julian Bream and Peter Pears, and Sinfonia de Requiem with London Symphony Orchestra.

Also a letter from Harley Usill, from Argo Record Company, regarding plans to record Curlew River.

Extent1 file; 44 items

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