Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...
Twentieth-century British composer Benjamin Britten is likely the greatest since Henry Purcell and his Serenade, Op. 31 for tenor, (French) horn and strings, is one of the masterpieces of the 20th ...
Benjamin Britten’s godson happens to be composer/broadcaster (and another Hampstead resident) Michael Berkeley, who has a new song cycle premiering at Temple Church, Feb 24. Called Things Invisible to ...