One of today's foremost exponents of his instrument, Jakob Lindberg arrived at the lute by way of the guitar and played both for several years. When he decided to devote himself exclusively to the...
Bream / Martin / Britten / Brouwer / Takemitsu Nocturnal CD1. Quatre Pieces Breves, Prelude: Lent - Vite 2. Quatre Pieces Breves, II: Air: Lent Et Bien Rythme 3. Quatre Pieces Breves, III: Plainte:...
Lauridsen / Polyphony / Britten Sinfonia / Layton Nocturnes CD1. Lament for Pasiphae (Mid-Winter Songs- Robert Graves) 2. Like Snow 3. She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep 4. Mid-Winter Waking 5...
The centenary of Benjamin Britten is marked with a new study by the multi-award-winning director Tony Palmer. It is a dark coda to Palmer's four other Italia-Prize-winning films with and about...
In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre...