Three fine soloists were joined by the excellent Tiffin Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs alongside the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Chorus whose pianissimo singing left us with a much-need ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom's performance of ...

The human race should well be ashamed that Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem is still chillingly relevant 64 years after it was ...

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Nagasaki, and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. These ideas gestated over a period of years, during which he completed operas and other works. In 1958, Britten was asked to write a piece to ...

Benjamin Britten is hard to pin down. His music has been wildly popular; his music has been neglected. He has been branded as reactionary by some. But to more conservative listeners, his music still ...

Vishnevskaya in 1963, the year she recorded and gave her first public performance of the War Requiem CREATIVE genius and the inspiration gleaned from close personal friends were always inseparable in ...

It may be a fool's errand to pick "favorites" in any art form, but the three composers who have anniversaries this year — Verdi, Wagner and Benjamin Britten — may be mine. To the general public, ...

The Nashville Symphony closes its Aegis Sciences Classical Series this spring with Benjamin Britten's breathtaking masterpiece, "War Requiem." Featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Blair ...

For conductor Marin Alsop, discovering Benjamin Britten through his monumental War Requiem has been both easy and complex — a perfect summation... Consumed By Violence, With Hope For Peace: Britten's ...