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Benjamin Britten: The Early Years

BBC Radio 3
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The first programme of a three-part documentary tracing his early life and work, which includes extracts from his unknown early music, quotations from his diaries, letters, other documents and interviews with people who knew and worked with him up to 1945.
Compiled by Donald Mit chell. Additional research by Anthony Friese-Greene Narrator Donald Mitchell with Andrew Branch as Benjamin Britten
1: The Years 1913-1933 with the voices of ELIZABETH BARRADELL-SMITH , BILL BRADLEY , BENJAMIN BRITTEN , IMOGEN HOLST , PETER PEARS , BETH WELFORD and SOPHIE WYSS.
PETER PEARS (tenor)
GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) ENGLISH CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA, conductor STEUART BEDFORD
HEATHER HARPER (SOpranO) GABRIELI STRING QUARTET
ANTHONY GOLDSTONK (piano) Producer
ANTHONY FRIESE-CREENE

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Mit
Narrator:
Anthony Friese-Greene
Unknown:
Andrew Branch
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Elizabeth Barradell-Smith
Unknown:
Bill Bradley
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Imogen Holst
Unknown:
Peter Pears
Unknown:
Beth Welford
Unknown:
Sophie Wyss.
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Conductor:
Steuart Bedford
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Soprano:
Gabrieli String
Piano:
Anthony Goldstonk
Unknown:
Anthony Friese-Creene
Source: Radio Times

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