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Britten 100

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Music: Classical

Programmes featuring music and discussion to mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten.

Full details of the Britten Centenary Weekend (22-24 Nov), based at Snape Maltings – with live and recorded concerts and operas, discussions, and debates.

Full details of the Britten Centenary Weekend (22-24 Nov), based at Snape Maltings – with live and recorded concerts and operas, discussions, and debates. Browse the photo galleries, listen to Britten's music, and watch videos.

Britten 100: Britten Plus: Festival of Britten

Britten 100: Britten Plus: Festival of Britten: Part 2: English Chamber Orchestra

English Chamber Orchestra

Part 2 Part 2: English Chamber Orchestra

Britten Plus

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Suzy Klein finds out about the English Chamber Orchestra's role at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Suzy Klein dicusses the English Chamber Orchestra's role under Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival with its former manager Ursula Jones and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.

Continuing Radio 3's residency in Suffolk. The English Chamber Orchestra was Britten's 'house orchestra' at the Aldeburgh Festival. From shortly after its founding in 1960 until his death in 1976, Britten conducted it in a wide range of repertoire, performed chamber music with its principal players, and entrusted it with important premieres of both his and others' music.
Live from Snape Maltings Suzy Klein discusses the ECO's role as Britten's orchestra of choice with its manager at the time, Ursula Jones and its former cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch .

Bridge: Sir Roger de Coverley
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Britten: Act II (excerpt) (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Oberon ..... Alfred Deller (countertenor)
Tytania ..... Elizabeth Harewood (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Debussy: Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Britten: Passacaglia (Cello Symphony)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Britten: Overture 'The Building of the House'
Chorus of East Anglian Choirs
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Mozart: Rondo (Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K 482)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Schubert: Der Hirt aus dem Felsen
Heather Harper (soprano)
Thea King (clarinet)
Benjamin Britten (piano)

Shostakovich: Lorelei (Symphony No 14, Op 135)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Mark Rezhetin (bass)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides' Op 26
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor).

Britten 100: Britten Plus

Festival of Britten

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Programmes featuring speech and music, broadcast as part of Radio 3's Britten 100 season

Exploring different aspects related to the Aldeburgh Festival

Exploring different aspects related to the Aldeburgh Festival, founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier

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