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 ...

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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 ...

Remarkable poetry resides in the fact that Benjamin Britten was born on Nov. 22, since in the Christian liturgical calendar that date marks the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Even ...

"It's kind of a perfect double-bill tragedy." That's how choreographer and director Mark Morris describes his program next week at Tanglewood. In the first half, Morris will direct fellows of the ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

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 ...