A profile on film and in the studio of one of the great figures in twentieth-century music, Benjamin Britten first shown on his fiftieth birthday Friday, November 22.
"A splendid birthday tribute" (Daily Telegraph)
"High-powered detailed coverage" (Television Mail)
"Admirably simple and unpretentious references to the essential religious basis of Britten's art" (The Listener)
With the London Symphony Orchestra, leader, Erich Gruenberg under the great Russian conductor, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, Ronald Dowd and Harry Mossfield, W.H. Auden, Michael Tippett, Hans Keller
(Harry Mossfield appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
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