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  1. Benjamin Britten (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Instruments of the Orchestra (1946 Video)

    aka: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

    Contains the Benjamin Britten composition ‘Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell’ better known as ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. Through the co-operation of the composer,...

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  7. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Radio)

    Producer
    Chris Marshall
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Ten-part series in which John Evans talks to distinguished interpreters of Britten’s operas about recordings and performances with which they are closely associated. In episode 8 Sir Peter Hall talks about...

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  8. Benjamin Britten and His Festival (Television)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Producer
    Nathan Kroll; Humphrey Burton
    Subject
    Music

    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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