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Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 4 días · Benjamin Britten was a leading British composer of the mid-20th century, whose operas were considered the finest English operas since those of Henry Purcell in the 17th century. He was also an outstanding pianist and conductor.
Hace 1 día · Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Lachrymae: Reflections on a song of Dowland, Op. 48 (1950) Jordan Bak (viola) ... Britten was later to compose another set of variations on a Dowland song, his Nocturnal, Op. 70, for guitar, and a particularity of both pieces is that the theme is only heard at the end, and in Dowland’s original harmonies.
Hace 5 días · When the composer Benjamin Britten died in 1976, it wasn’t clear how the public would remember him. There was Britten the rooted composer, firmly set in his native Suffolk, England, and the ...
Hace 5 días · Britten once explained what he called “this holy triangle”: composer, performer and listener. It’s not a universally loved idea. But when bound by trust, and buoyed by ample royalty payments, it’s a good guide for the Aldeburgh Festival, even as its main characters change.
Hace 1 día · WORMSLEY ESTATE, U.K. — Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its intimate forest setting, is the perfect summer-festival opera. Based on the Shakespeare play and premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1960, it is also quintessentially English. How fitting to catch it at Garsington Opera, an al fresco enterprise located near ...
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