Fifty years after his death, has Benjamin Britten sunk quietly into irrelevance? That would hardly be surprising. The world ...

Brian Large, who has died aged 89, directed more than 800 concerts and opera performances for television including the world ...

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Chansons Lisa Illean: Swellsong (UK Premiere) Brett Dean: Carlo INTERVAL Benjamin Britten: Cello Symphony, Op. 68 Genevieve ...

For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...

I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...

As the Benjamin Britten centenary reaches its climax, here are ten good reasons why we think the 20th century English composer is one of the all-time greats. 4 He transformed the quality of British ...

A new biography of Benjamin Britten being published in Britain to commemorate the late composer’s 100th birthday contends that he suffered from syphilis and that he may have contracted the venereal ...

In his centenary year, the triumph of Benjamin Britten seems complete. It takes an effort of imagination to remember it wasn’t always so. During his lifetime there were always loud dissenting voices, ...