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  1. Britten-Pears School

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1100
    NoS ID
    329341
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies was founded at Snape Maltings on the East Anglian coast by Sir Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Pears. It provides an opportunity for...

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  2. Benjamin Britten: A Time There was (2013)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £12.99

    Tony Palmer’s in-depth portrait of composer Benjamin Britten. The English Chamber Orchestra perform extracts from Britten’s works, including ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, ‘Peter...

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  3. Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967 Television)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Producer
    Nathan Kroll; Humphrey Burton

    Television documentary marking twenty years of the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by the Queen of the Maltings concert hall. The film begins with scenes in Paris where Britten’s opera A Midsummer...

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  4. Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (2012)

    aka: Benjamin: Written on Skin

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 168 minutes), £24.99

    An opera by Britten with a libretto by Montagu Slater from George Crabbe’s poem ‘Peter Grimes’, which appeared in his book, The Borough. The borough in the opera is a fictional village which shares...

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  5. Britten: War Requiem (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

    2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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  6. Benjamin Britten

    Date released
    1965
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    56
    NoS ID
    352882

    NoS synopsis: London Line visits Benjamin Britten at home in Aldeburgh on the occasion of his choral work "Voices for Today" being performed in New York, Paris, Moscow and London for the 20th Anniversary of...

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  7. Instruments of the Orchestra/Steps of the Ballet (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 45 min., 1995 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

    Two classic education films of the 1940s from the Crown Film Unit. INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA features Sir Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra and centres around specially composed music by...

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  8. Turn of the Screw, The (Opera) (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), Subscription only

    Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the Henry James novel about a governess who discovers that the house in which she lives and works is haunted by the evil spirits of two former employees, and that her two...

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  9. Coal Face (1935 Video)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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  10. War Requiem (2008)

    Director
    Derek Jarman
    Subject
    English language and literature; History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the life of Wilfred Owen, the poet, who died in 1918, this film is a blend of Benjamin Britten’s music, Owen’s poetry and director Derek Jarman’s visuals. The film includes wartime footage...

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