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27 de jun. de 2024 · Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
14 de jun. de 2024 · Cuckoo! by Benjamin Britten takes up the distinctive birdcall. This exquisite miniature is taken from Friday Afternoons , a set of songs written in 1936 for the choir of his brother’s boys’ school in Prestatyn, North Wales.
29 de jun. de 2024 · Benjamin Britten Songs from Friday Afternoons: Cuckoo! Abkco 88922 COND Benjamin Britten ORCH Choir of Downside School 1:39 C 1 20-20 _____ 8:06 PM 1974 Gregorio Allegri Miserere DG/Archiv 21327 COND Karel Mark Chichon ORCH Saarbrucken Radio Symphony SOLO Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano SOLO and Chorus ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Sixty years ago, on Friday 12 June 1964, Julian Bream premièred the Nocturnal after John Dowland for Guitar, Op. 70 by Benjamin Britten at the seventeenth Aldeburgh Festival in the Jubilee Hall, in the seaside town of Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten had a long-standing musical friendship that resulted in the composer writing several major pieces for the cellist. Britten, who did not perform in public very frequently, made exceptions for his friend Rostropovich.
26 de jun. de 2024 · Für Britten hatte die Form der Oper eine hochaktuelle Aussagekraft über seine Zeit, nach dem verheerenden Krieg. Gegen die Camouflage einer „inneren Emigration“ während der Nazizeit – als keine Kunst und kein Widerstand scheinbar möglich waren – verlieh Britten dem Medium Oper politische Brisanz.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Who is this Benjamin character and what pieces should I go and see? Let me illuminate some trivia and point out some highlights. Benjamin Britten emerged into the world on 22 November 1913 in Lowestoft, an English fishing town: for trivia's sake the most easterly point of the United Kingdom.
