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Britten 100

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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: Festival of Britten

Britten 100: Festival of Britten: Episode 2: Haydn: Cello Concerto in C

Haydn: Cello Concerto in C

Episode 2

Episode 2: Haydn: Cello Concerto in C

Festival of Britten

BBC Radio 3 - Britten 100, Festival of Britten, Haydn: Cello Concerto in C

Tom Service presents Britten conducting Mstislav Rostropovich in Haydn's Cello Concerto.

Tom Service presents Britten conducting Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major in a recording from 1964.

By 1964 both Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra were regular fixtures at the Aldeburgh Festival. In a concert at that year's Festival (which also included the premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony) Britten conducted them in the first English performance of the recently discovererd Haydn C major Cello Concerto. As if all that wasn't enough, Britten wrote the cadenzas for Rostropovich in the Haydn and they recorded it in December. Presented by Tom Service.

Haydn: Cello Concerto in C, Hob.VIIb:1
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor).

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Archive recordings of performances given by Benjamin Britten, as conductor and soloist

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