Benjamin britten

Den norske sopranen Mari Eriksmoen har gjort suksess rundt om i Europa, på operascener i Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin og La Scala i Milano. Sammen med Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester og Edward Garner byr hun på fantastiske…

Having dazzled the critics (Choc de Classica, the German Record Critics? Award) some 16 years earlier with its label debut featuring best-loved twentieth-century English a capella works, the members of RIAS Kammerchor…

This live recording ? the second in The Dale Warland Live series ? includes music of two 20th century composers, Benjamin Britten and Daniel Pinkham, whose distinctive works inspired their contemporaries and generations…

Benjamin Britten was one of the most important cultural figures in England in the twentieth century. Internationally renowned as a composer, performer, and founder of the Aldeburgh Festival and English Opera Group, he…

Collection of five operas composed by Benjamin Britten. John Graham-Hall leads the cast in 'Peter Grimes' (2012) with Robin Ticciati conducting the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus. Paul Daniel leads the English…

Benjamin Britten was one of the outstanding British composers of 20th century. He shot to international fame with his operas, performed by his own English Opera Group, and a series of extraordinary instrumental works.…

Collection of five operas composed by Benjamin Britten. John Graham-Hall leads the cast in 'Peter Grimes' (2012) with Robin Ticciati conducting the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus. Paul Daniel leads the English…

Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film.…

Filmed in 1964 at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Benjamin Britten conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in performances of Mozart's 'Symphony No. 40' and his own 'Nocturne', accompanied by tenor Peter Pears. Also…

Glyndebourne has a proud association with the operas of Benjamin Britten, however until 2010 had never staged Billy Budd. The all-male opera with a libretto co-written by EM Forster, is based on the battle between pure…

The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten - edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke - covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two major operatic works, A Midsummer Night's Dream and…

Alejo Pérez conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real in this performance of Benjamin Britten's tragic opera starring tenor John Daszak as Gustav von Aschenbach.

The renowned Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs Tchaikovsky's 'Rococo Variations' at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1968, with Benjamin Britten conducting. Also included are rare performances of Britten…

Petr Weigl directs this filmed version of Benjamin Britten's two-act opera, a morality tale following the experiences of an apprentice chimneysweep.

Presents an account of Britten's life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. This book helps…

Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a dentist father and…

Richard Jones's production of Benjamin Britten's most popular opera takes to the stage at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. John Graham-Hall stars as the eponymous, impetuous fisherman in this mysterious tale set in a…

?Gift Voucher: six Suites for Slava? This note, scribbled on a paper napkin was a promise supposedly made in 1964 by Benjamin Britten to the cellist Mstislav Leopoldovich ?Slava? Rostropovich. It would appear that he…

Version of the Benjamin Britten opera, directed by Sir Peter Hall at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Albert Herring is repressed by his domineering mother and ridiculed by his peers. When local dignitary Lady Billows…

'It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

Andris Nelsons leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in this 50th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. The piece was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral,…

Documentary film by Tony Palmer which captures British composer Benjamin Britten overseeing the recording of his work 'The Burning Fiery Furnace' at St. Bartholomew's Orford Church. The cast includes Britten's life…

Berkeley?s first opera, Nelson, was put on at Sadler?s Wells in 1954. The others were performed by the English Opera Group which had been founded by the young Benjamin Britten, Joan Cross, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears in…

Edward Gardner conducts the English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Benjamin Britten's final opera based on the novella by Thomas Mann. John Graham-Hall plays Gustav von Aschenbach, an ageing…

Benjamin Britten

Jamie Walton performs three suites for solo cello composed by Benjamin Britten. His performance is captured in Blythburgh's Holy Trinity Church in Suffolk, England.

Benjamin Britten's haunting and sinister opera, composed in 1954, is based on the famous novella written by Henry James in 1898. This film release of the popular opera returns to the late 19th Century setting of the…

The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began…

Benjamin Britten's final opera, written between 1971-1973, recorded at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2008. Bruno Bartoletti conducts, while there are performances by Marlin Miller, Scott Hendricks and Alessandro…

Andris Nelsons leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in this 50th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. The piece was commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral,…

Director Tony Britten's drama documentary examines the acclaimed composer's lifelong commitment to pacifism. Using a dramatic narrative to explore the development of Britten's pacifist beliefs during the time he spent at…

Golo Mann korrespondierte in den Jahren zwischen 1932 und 1992 mit Freunden und Gegnern, Künstlern, Publizisten und Politikern - unter ihnen Karl Jaspers, Benjamin Britten, Willy Brandt, Ernst Jünger, Marion Gräfin…

The acclaimed English Song Series celebrates the richness and diversity of British composers, performed by leading interpreters of the repertoire. Growing out of an ancient tradition that still echoes in the folk song…

A specially-staged studio recording of the English National Opera's highly acclaimed production of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera. Jean Rigby plays Lucretia. Russell Smythe plays the Prince of Rome.

Tony Palmer directs this in-depth portrait of English composer Benjamin Britten. The film includes extracts from many of Britten's works, including 'The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra', 'Peter Grimes', 'Death in…

Benjamin Britten (1913?1976) ist einer der meistgespielten Komponisten der Moderne. Dieses Buch beschreibt Leben und Werk: Brittens Wunderkinderexistenz und frühe Laufbahn als Pianist, seinen bedingungslosen Pazifismus,…

Director Tony Palmer's filmed record of Benjamin Britten's opera. Adapted from Thomas Mann's novel, the story follows a disillusioned writer spending his last days in a disease-ridden Venice. Palmer had originally been…

Director Tony Palmer's 1967 documentary, chronicling Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival and the opening of the concert hall at Snape by the Queen. Music featured in the film includes: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The…