Britten

"After taking advice we took the decision to close today in order to bring teams in to deep clean the entire school today and over the weekend," Mr Britten said.

This latest volume of Aldeburgh Studies in Music, whose contributors adopt a range of contrasting but ultimately complementary approaches to their subject, captures the vitality of the research which has been undertaken on Britten since the 2013 centenary.

Various aspects of Britten's interest in Russia--in particular his friendships with Rostropovich, Dmitrii Shostakovich, and Galina Vishnevskafa--have been the subjects of previous research.

The great Jascha Heifetz declared it to be unplayable and, although Britten revised and cut some flashier passages, the solo part is still very demanding - but Byers handled all the triple-stopping and left hand pizzicato with complete assurance.

A little research would have revealed that Huddersfield Choral Society has performed Britten's masterpiece no fewer than three times in Huddersfield Town Hall in 2007, 1989 and, for the first time, back in 1983.

Christopher Smith, principal horn of Santa Fe Pro Musica and Professor of Horn at Texas Tech University, delivers a beautiful rendition of the Britten Serenade in this live recording from March 2010.

Britten's Cabaret Songs, a group of four witty morsels to texts by W.H.

The project marked the beginning of a professional association between the artist, Britten and the tenor Peter Pears (1910-86) that would include two further productions: a recording of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise and Owen Wingrave, an opera Britten composed specifically for television.

Britten was a fine composer, whose important works highlighted the pain of isolation that was the hallmark of the 20th century and continues to blight the lives of many in the 21st.

Britten is one of the RLPO's themes for the 2013/14 season, and this concert - bringing together no fewer than five of his works from the 1940s - must presumably be THE central celebration, hence its moniker.

Walshaw Lodge residential home in Prestatyn, formerly Clive House Preparatory School, where Britten's brother, Robert was headmaster, will host tenor John Bacon and pianist Helen Mills who will perform songs by Benjamin Britten.

OPERA North present Midsummer Night's Dream as part of their Benjamin Britten centenary celebration at the Theatre Royal.

New York, NY, November 01, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Melodia Women's Choir of NYC led by Artistic Director Cynthia Powell opens its eleventh season with 'Visions of Peace,' a bold and irrepressible holiday program centered on a Melodia reprise performance of Benjamin Britten's “A Ceremony of Carols.” Composed for women's voices and harp in 1942, “A Ceremony of Carols” is one of Britten's most beloved works, resonant for its purity of spirit and sense of hope and joy.

A musical eye; the visual world of Britten and Pears.

Coming up in September is the 61st Hexham Abbey Festival which has a new name - Britten's Got Talent.