BBC

The Early Music Show: Britten And Purcell

In the first of two programmes in the Britten centenary year, Catherine Bott looks at the musical relationship between Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell. Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Paul ...
The Scotsman

Scotland celebrates Benjamin Britten

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NPR

Britten

Simon Rattle leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the last two movements of Benjamin Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." Britten creates variations on a theme by legendary ...
New Republic

The Minor Greatness of Benjamin Britten

Earlier this autumn, the Metropolitan Opera honored the centennial anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth on November 22 by re-staging its 1996 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Some ...
The Australian

Composer Benjamin Britten has the last laugh in his centenary year

Who was this man and why does his music continue to exert such an extraordinary hold? In his recent play The Habit of Art, Alan Bennett presents him as an effete and indecisive figure - someone a ...
BBC

The Early Music Show: Britten And Purcell

Catherine Bott continues her comparison of two of the greatest setters of the English language, Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell. Presenter/ Catherine Bott, Producer/ Paul Frankl for the BBC ...