Lebrecht Weekly | Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
The flawless Skride is joined by violist Ivan Vukcevic and the orchestra of Vienna Radio, conducted by Marin Alsop.
Browsing: Benjamin Britten
Fall Highlights: Youth
Jeunesses Musicales Canada Jeunesses Musicales Canada is back with another action-packed season of programming for a wide variety of ages. The holiday season kicks off…
Cecilia Livingston: Driven by Melody
Cecilia Livingston can mark the moment her music changed. Instead of making bread and practising yoga through the worst of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, Livingston…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Like Beethoven’s Mass in C major which is overshadowed by the mighty Missa Solemnis, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is sometimes mistaken for the War…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
It has been a while since the viola last had a powerful advocate. Timothy Ridout, 24 and British, is being touted as the next star…
Britten’s War Requiem
This May, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is closing its season with Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece War Requiem, conducted by Kent Nagano with soloists Catherine Naglestad,…
Lebrecht Weekly – British Clarinet Concertos 2 (Chandos)
An unknown work by Benjamin Britten sets the pulse racing. It turns out to be fragments of a concerto he started writing for Benny…
Video of the Day – Rattle and the BPO Play Britten’s War Requiem
November 22 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. During his lifetime Britten was recognized as one of the foremost composers of…
Video of the Day – The Aldeburgh Connection Presents Its Final Concert
After more than 30 years of distinguished music-making, the Aldeburgh Connection has decided to pack it in. This month it will give its final concert.…
DSO, van Zweden & Co. Present Britten’s Prayer for Pacifism
by Paul E. RobinsonOlga Guryakova, sopranoIan Bostridge, tenorDietrich Henschel, baritoneChildren’s Chorus of Greater DallasDallas Symphony ChorusDallas Symphony OrchestraJaap Van Zweden, conductorPaul Phillips, conductor (chamber orchestra)Myerson…
