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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's Church Parables

Britten 100: Britten's Church Parables: Episode 3: The Prodigal Son

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Episode 3: The Prodigal Son

Britten's Church Parables

The Prodigal Son

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A Mahogany Opera production of The Prodigal Son, the last of Britten's Church Parables.

Louise Fryer presents a Mahogany Opera production from the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival of The Prodigal Son, the last of Britten's three Church Parables. With tenor James Gilchrist.

The third and last of the Church Parables tells the parable of the Prodigal Son. Benjamin Britten's take on the biblical tale of a farmer's youngest child who leaves his father and older brother to indulge his most secret longings, only to return penniless and destitute and begging for forgiveness.

James Gilchrist sings the intriguing role of the tempter who lures the younger son towards sin in Mahogany Opera's acclaimed production recorded at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival in the place for which it was written, Orford Church. Presented by Louise Fryer.

Britten: The Prodigal Son

The Tempter ..... James Gilchrist (tenor)
The Father ..... Lukas Jakobski (bass baritone)
The Elder Son ..... Rodney Earl Clarke (baritone)
The Younger Son ..... John McMunn (tenor)
Mahogany Opera
Roger Vignoles (music director)
Frederic Wake-Walker (director).

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.

Britten's three Church Parables, performed at Orford Church at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival

Louise Fryer presents a celebrated performance given at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival in Orford Church, the place for which they were originally written, of Britten's three Church Parables

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