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• Briefly Noted: Such the tenor man told...

  
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  Britten, Songs, I. Bostridge, A. Pappano, X. Yang(released on May 21, 2013)EMI 4334302 | 7015"As noted earlier this week, the Britten centenary is yielding some welcome recordings of the composers lesser-known works. Add to the list this disc of Brittens songs performed by tenor Ian Bostridge, who has the optimal type ...
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• Briefly Noted: Rape of Lucretia

  
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  Britten, The Rape of Lucretia, I. Bostridge, S. Gritton, A. Kirchschlager, Aldeburgh Festival, O. Knussen(released on February 5, 2013)Virgin 50999 60267221 | 10533"On November 22nd this year -- St. Cecilias Day -- Benjamin Britten would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Composer anniversaries are mostly for ...
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• Gay Theatre Festival

  
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    Shoegirl gets all cultural Very quietly, May is creeping into our lives, and with it, the Dublin Gay Theatre festival . This has been an excellent festival in recent years and this year should be no exception. Festivities start today and continue until 19th May, with plenty for all tastes, and even a few shows ...
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• Art at The Aldeburgh Festival

  
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  Hello Caught By the River, I thought you might be interested in some of the work that will be on show at SNAP at the Aldeburgh Festival this year. SNAP is the contemporary art component of the Festival and as part of Aldeburgh Music’s year-long celebration of Benjamin Britten’s centenary, SNAP has invited ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ring comes to South Kensington - from Ades to Zappa: death by great music at the 2013 London Proms

  
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  Attention grant makers:  Lynn Becker is pleased to announce he will be available to set up residency in London from July to September this year to create an introductory on-line overview of classical music through the hundreds of concerts of the 2013 BBC Proms, plus a new blog on London, architecture and urbanism.  ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Amis talks about Benjamin Britten at Orpington Recorded Music Society

  
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  Former music critic, presenter and friend of Benjamin Britten John Amis spoke to members of the Orpington Recorded Music Society on Monday 22 April 2013, sharing his recollections about the composer and playing some select recordings of works written by and conducted by him too. At 90 years of age, Amis still ...
  3 weeks ago

• Britten Elicits Both Focus and Frenzy at Neue Oper Wien

  
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  Benjamin Britten’s exquisitely styled short operas from the mid-1960s are full of broad strokes and slow, deliberate musical sequences. They can fall one of two ways in performance: into a frustratingly slow-paced, jumbled and incoherent madness; or, alternatively, into a calm, deeply insightful group meditation on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rare bird - music festival with no Wagner or Britten

  
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  News comes via the Master Musicians of Jajouka diaspora that the masters are playing this weekend at the Alchemy at Zahar Festival . This new event, which takes place seven hours drive south of Marrakech in the Moroccan Sahara, replaces the Festival au Désert in Mali which has been cancelled due to the state of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Orchestra holding final free concert

  
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  By Adam Pennavaria | @KyKernel news@kykernel.com The UK Symphony Orchestra will be holding its final free concert of the year Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Singletary Center. The orchestra will be performing the “War Requiem” by composer Benjamin Britten. Britten was a composer, conductor and pianist of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Britten’s Children

  
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  I’ve recently been working my way through a pile of books I bought over the years but haven’t yet got around to reading. The latest is Britten’s Children by John Bridcut  which I think I bought shortly after it was published in 2006 but have only just finished. I don’t know why it took me so long to read ...
  5 weeks ago

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