The comprehensive series of recordings of Benjamin Britten conducting and playing his own music that Decca released during the 1960s and ’70s helped immeasurably to ensure that the great British ...

Benjamin Britten is a long way from having invented the concept of the all-around musician, but he certainly is its most significant embodiment today. In addition to producing a series of musical ...

Noye’s Fludde, completed in December 1957 and first performed during the 1958 Aldeburgh Festival, is Britten's most extended and elaborate work for children. To celebrate of the 60th anniversary of ...

Arne:Ode in Honor of Great Britain(“Rule, Britannia”) (Benjamin Britten conducting soloists, Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra and Chorus; London: 12″ LP). Almost everyone has heard “Rule, Britannia,” but ...

Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played ...

If you're a composer, there are a couple of good ways to ensure that your work will continue to be played, discussed and thought about after you're gone. One, of course, is to write music of ...

Before we hear Kent Nagano conducting the German Symphony Orchestra later in the program, we hear him direct the Halle Orchestra in the opening movement from Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta.

But let's take a step back before we examine bits and pieces from his amazing output, and look at what he achieved over his lifetime. Britten, who died in 1976, was a gifted composer by any measure, ...

Benjamin Britten conducting a rehearsal for the opening of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in June 1967, with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch the second cellist on the right.Photograph: Hans Wild/Britten Pears ...