I'm trying to track down a recording of Britten's Red Cockatoo - but I want the contralto version (or a Bariton version). Everything I can find has it in original pitch (just one note higher - but that would take me up to a B on some songs, and that's at the extreme of my upper range).

Does anyone know where I can find such a thing? (Preferably to download, but on cd if not).

Where have you tried? Which B is it the one above the 1st ledger line on the treble clef? - That would be high for a mezzo!

The only thing I can suggest is google it and see if you can find a contralto or baritone singing them.

Yes, the one above the leger line.

The only recording I can find is a tenor version on CD.

It seems remarkably underrecorded.

me too, the only one I can find is recorded by Ian Bostridge.

That's the one I've found.

I'm surprised - they're quite famous amongst britten lovers, those songs.

J

I'm still looking in particular for a recording of cradle song. In either the soprano or the alto version, I guess - particularly a downloadable version. Does know of one?