It might seem odd to begin a collection called "Unknown Britten" with Les ­Illuminations, perhaps the best known of his early works. But this performance, taken from a Northern Sinfonia concert with ...

'MOVEMENTS FOR A CLARINET CONCERTO': BRITISH COMPOSER FINISHES BENJAMIN BRITTEN PIECE "This is as close to a Britten piece as you're going to get for clarinet," says Brenden Guy, the ambitious young ...

Some art works, it is said, have a life of their own. One that seemed determined to be born despite a prolonged gestation is Benjamin Britten's Movements for a Clarinet Concerto: confiscated by the US ...

This was a virtuosic, witty performance of a mixed programme of works mostly by Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland, who spent the summer of 1939 together in Woodstock ...

Britten Sinfonia at Lunch with music by Schubert, Schumann and a new commission from singer/composer Roderick Williams, recorded in January at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Programme: Lutoslawski ...

What's the one performance from your career that sticks in your mind? Every concert seems to be so totally absorbing at the time and I am always so happy to be able to have achieved, hopefully, what I ...

Scheduled as part of the Barbican’s Live from the Barbican series, as evidenced by last night’s performance by the Britten Sinfonia – in its original scoring for an ensemble of 13 instruments – what ...