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| Accidental Beauties Of Silly Songs | ...Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith explores WH Auden's fascination with music and song. He looks at Auden's collaboration with BENJAMIN BRITTEN on cabaret songs and the musical Paul Bunyan, as well as his libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.... |
| Advent Carol Service | ...Carol: There is no rose (BENJAMIN BRITTEN)... |
| Afternoon On 3 | ...Part: Cantus in memorium BENJAMIN BRITTEN... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Thirty five years ago a disastrous fire gutted the Snape Maltings, the Aldeburgh Festival's main concert Hall. Out of the Ashes tells how one of Britain's greatest international artistic ventures overcame setback and became a living monument to the composer, BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Out of the ashes of both war and fire a SLEEPy former fishing village in Suffolk was to become one of the Europe's musical powerhouses. Ivan Howlett dips into the ArcHIVes to tell the Aldeburgh story. Written and presented by Ivan Howlett ... |
| Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) | |
| Blue Peter Guide To The Orchestra, The | ...Including 6.00 News 2: Konnie Huq meets the wind players of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and finds out about music that really shows off each instrument, including Ravel's `Daphnis and Chloe' and Dvorak's `New World' Symphony. Simon Thomas begins his Instrument Fact File, and Konnie starts her daily look at how BENJAMIN BRITTEN wrote for each orchestral section in his `Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'.... |
| Celebrating Cecilia | ...Catherine Bott tells the story of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, examining her role as martyr, saint and muse and as the inspiration for some of the great works of music and literature, including work by Handel, Purcell and BENJAMIN BRITTEN and Chaucer, Pope and Dryden. Catherine learns of Cecilia's gruesome martyrdom and subsequent place in history and witnesses preparations for the annual festival concert staged in her honour.... |
| Ceremony Of Innocence, The | ...By Martyn Wade, starring Simon Russell Beale as BENJAMIN BRITTEN and Julian Wadham as Peter Pears. It is 50 years since the first Aldeburgh Festival, and this new play about the life and work of BENJAMIN BRITTEN explores his professional and personal passions. The play focuses on the foundation of the festival and, through it, the nature of his interest in the young people who played roles in the first performances of some of his compositions. Also starring Anna Massey, John Wood and Alan MacNaughtan. Director Cherry Cookson ... |
| Choir, The | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN (conductor)... |
| De Valois And Her Choreographers | ...A look at the relationship between Ninette de Valois and her choreographers, in whom she encouraged a great deal of ambition. The resulting successes included Frederick Ashton's first three-act ballet `Cinderalla', John Cranko's `The Prince of the Pagodas' to a score commissioned from BENJAMIN BRITTEN, and Ashton's `La fille mal gardee'.... |
| Discovering Music | ...The Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) by BENJAMIN BRITTEN was the outcome of a commission from the Japanese Government, but was rejected by them on account of its CHRISTIAN subject matter. The music is both highly dramatic and personal, being a tribute to the memory of the composer's parents. In this audience workshop session, Charles Hazlewood explores the sources of Britten's inspiration, both personal and musical, and conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a complete performance of what is one of the most personal and controversial British symphonies of the last century.... |
| Documentary Britten | ...two of the scores created by BENJAMIN BRITTEN with WH Auden for the GPO Film Unit in the 1930s, in concert performances from the 2001 Aldeburgh Festival. Peter Eyre (narrator) BBC Singers Psappha Stephen Layton (conductor).... |
| Encounters With Britten | ...Humphrey Burton talks to musicians who recall working with BENJAMIN BRITTEN.... |
| Expressing Your Affection | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano)... |
| Faith And Art - The Hussey Legacy | ...1/2. Walter Hussey (1909-1985) was described as the last great patron of arts in the Church of England. David Owen Norris explores how the works he commissioned for his parish in Northampton, from the likes of Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and BENJAMIN BRITTEN, revolutionised the way Anglicans engaged with modern art.... |
| For One Night Only | ...A life-long pacifist, BENJAMIN BRITTEN wrote his War Requiem to highlight the futility of war and promote the cause of world peace. The venue for its first performance, in May 1962, was highly symbolic - the newly consecrated Cathedral built amid the ruins of Coventry, the city which suffered some of the worst bombing of World War II. Those who were in the cathedral that evening remember it as an intensely emotional experience; the German baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, chosen for further symbolic reasons by Britten to sing alongside the British tenor, Peter Pears, commented that it was difficult to sing with tears in one's eyes. Many have since re-lived the experience from the Decca studio recording released the following year. Paul Gambaccini plays the record and hears from those who were in the cathedral on that momentous evening.... |
| Frank Bridge (1879-1941) | ...Bridge's fostering of a young BENJAMIN BRITTEN's talents was crucial in the junior composer's career.... |
| Front Row | ...Mark Lawson interviews Alan Bennett, who reflects on his career and discusses his new stage play, which centres on an imagined meeting between Wh Auden and BENJAMIN BRITTEN.... |
| Icons | ...Featuring solo lute music by John Dowland, consort performances of music by William Byrd and part of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's Nocturnal After Dowland.... |
| Joyce Grenfell At The Aldeburgh Festival | ...Writer and entertainer Joyce Grenfell was a fan of Aldeburgh, not missing a festival from 1962 until her death in 1979, and writing daily letters of her experiences to her friend Virginia Graham. Janie Hampton, Grenfell's biographer, presents a compilation of these letters, read by Maureen Lipman, revealing a candid, gossipy and surprisingly insightful portrait of the Festival, BENJAMIN BRITTEN and Aldeburgh itself.... |
| Let's Make A Festival | ...Charting the early years of the Aldeburgh Festival, viewed through the eyes of the women who helped create it, and BENJAMIN BRITTEN.... |
| Made In Britain | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN (conductor)... |
| Making History | ...Listener Bridget Long sets out to confirm a family story - that her late father played oboe in the premiere of a piece of work by BENJAMIN BRITTEN while being held in a German POW camp.... |
| Making Of Music, The | ...British composers responded to the war and its aftermath. BENJAMIN BRITTEN's Peter Grimes, first performed in June 1945, spoke to an audience that had been shaped by the experience of war.... |
| Music Matters | ...Tom Service talks to Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires about the spirituality of her performances, and examines the letters of BENJAMIN BRITTEN written between 1946 and 1951 - the period when he wrote many of his best known works, founded both the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely as a pianist and composer.... |
| Musical Side Of The Family, The | ...The Countess of Harewood recalls her extraordinary musical life. She has been closely associated with some of the century's greatest musical figures, including Maria Callas and BENJAMIN BRITTEN. She was born in Australia and is the sister of Barry Tuckwell, one of the world's finest horn players.... |
| Night Waves | ...Artist Maggi Hambling discusses John Constable's portraits, the focus of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Celebrated for his landscape paintings such as The Hay Wain, Constable's work as a portrait painter is far less well-known and, in fact, he produced more than 100 during his career. Hambling - now best-known for her controversial scallop sculpture dedicated to BENJAMIN BRITTEN in Aldeburgh, and her memorial to Oscar Wilde in central London - talks about this less-explored part of Constable's work and discusses her own portraits - particularly of the jazz musician George Melly.... |
| Opera In Action | ...Michael White traces the musical partnership between BENJAMIN BRITTEN and Peter Pears, for whose distinctive voice Britten created a dozen operatic roles, from Peter Grimes in 1945 to `Death in Venice' in 1973. With excerpts from Britten's operas and from works by other composers.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN's chamber opera is based on a story from Ancient Rome about the envy, violation and destruction of Lucretia's virtue - Lucretia being the only faithful wife amongst those of the Roman Generals away at war. Two characters help in telling the story - the Male and Female Chorus - and it's they who also give contemporary comments on the action.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Presented by Suzy Klein. The concert concludes with BENJAMIN BRITTEN's cantata St Nicolas.... |
| Performing Britten | ...Series focusing on the operas of BENJAMIN BRITTEN.... |
| Private Passions | ...Svensson's musical tastes are eclectic, ranging from a Bach cello suite and Bartok's Second Piano Concerto to Arvo Parts, Cantus in memory of BENJAMIN BRITTEN and the Charlie Haden Quartet's Wayfaring Stranger.... |
| Prodigy, The | ...Bernard Keeffe explores Menuhin's early years as a performer and recording artist, from his classic 1932 recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto to the concerts he gave at Belsen with BENJAMIN BRITTEN at the end of the Second World War. With Robert Cowan and Edward Greenfield.... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...Penny Gore presents a concert featuring Britten-Pears Alumni and pianist Malcolm Martineau performing songs by BENJAMIN BRITTEN as part of 2009's Aldeburgh Festival.... |
| Ramblings | ...In the second of six programmes, Jeremy Jessel walks from Snape to Orford with geographer Andrew Bennett, who talks about the impact of the Suffolk landscape on the music of BENJAMIN BRITTEN ... |
| Real History Of Opera, The | ...The 1945 premiere of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's most famous opera was a sensation. But the opera contains many messages - not all of them welcome to the British establishment.... |
| Shakespeare And English Music | ...Includes music by Roger Quilter, BENJAMIN BRITTEN, Gerald Finzi, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and songs written for various stagings of The Tempest down the ages - from the original 1609 production to Sir Michael Tippett's music for the Old Vic production in 1961.... |
| Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN (conductor).... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Richard Baker. 2: `Mozart in Prague'. Mozart's `The Marriage of Figaro' was a reasonable success in Vienna, but in Prague it caused a sensation. In fact, Prague gave Mozart some of his happiest moments. Music includes: Overture `The Marriage of Figaro'. English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Abendempfindung. Arleen Auger (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano). Symphony No 38 in D, K504. ECO/BENJAMIN BRITTEN.... |
| Tales From The Stave | ...BENJAMIN BRITTEN's working score for his opera Peter Grimes is in the Britten-Pears library at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Contributors include tenor Philip Langridge, Britten expert Dr John Evans and Dr Paul Banks of the Royal College of Music.... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside puts on his gondolier's outfit and glides through the canals of La Serenissima in search of songs that recall the city of Canaletto, Vivaldi and the Doges. With music by Gounod, Schumann, Reynaldo Hahn, Richard Rodgers, BENJAMIN BRITTEN, Giovanni Croce and the music hall star, Billy Merson.... |
| When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection | ...In the first of two programmes marking the thirtieth anniversary of WH Auden's death, Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of Auden's poems from the late 1930s, interwoven with musical settings of his work by BENJAMIN BRITTEN and Lennox Berkeley. Britten: On This Island: Let The Florid Music Praise! Philip Langridge (tenor) Steuart Bedford (piano) Berkeley: Five Poems: Lauds Philip Langridge (tenor) Steuart Bedford (piano) Britten: When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection Della Jones (mezzo) Steuart Bedford (piano) Britten: Our Hunting Fathers: Rats Away! Ian Bostridge (tenor) Britten Sinfonia Daniel Harding (conductor) Britten: On This Island: Nocturne Peter Pears (tenor) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) Britten: Spring Symphony Part 2: Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed Janet Baker (mezzo) Andre Previn (conductor) Britten: On This Island: As It Is, Plenty Philip Langridge (tenor) Steuart Bedford (piano).... |
| Words And Music | ...Fiona Shaw and Alex Jennings read a selection of poetry and prose on a sea theme from Elizabeth Bishop, Michael Longley, Charles Dickens, John Masefield and Hugo Williams, with music inspired by the sea by Charles Trenet, BENJAMIN BRITTEN, Mozart and Mendelssohn.... |