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Composers of the Week: Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten

on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod and Tony Scotland discuss the influence the two composers had on each other as young men.

Berkeley Five Short Pieces, Op 4 No 5 Raphael Terroni (piano)

Britten Rats Away! (Our Hunting Fathers, Op 8) Ian Bostridge (tenor), Britten Sinfonia, conductor Daniel Harding

Berkeley Divertimento, Op 18 (3rd mvt) LPO conducted by the Composer

Britten Piano Concerto (1st mvt) Barry Douglas, French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Marek Janowski

Berkeley Night Covers Up the Rigid Land, Op 14 No 2

Britten Night Covers Up the Rigid Land, Op 11 No 7

Berkeley Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love, Op 44 No 2b Philip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)

Berkeley Serenade BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox

(Repeated Monday 12 midnight)
(See also Performance on 3 at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Macleod
Guest:
Tony Scotland

BBC Radio 3

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