Benjamin Britten and Gerald Finzi don't seem natural musical soulmates; they belonged to different traditions within 20th-century English music. Certainly, Dies Natalis, the cantata based upon poems ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No part of Benjamin Britten’s legacy is more treasurable than his song cycles. Many are settings of poems in ...

Nocturne Benjamin Britten, Composer Britten Sinfonia Mark Padmore, Tenor Jaqueline Shave, Violin Dies natalis Britten Sinfonia Mark Padmore, Tenor Gerald (Raphael) Finzi, Composer Jaqueline Shave, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. With his centenary barely seven months away, Britten is enjoying unprecedented exposure – not least on ...

Benjamin Britten's music of the early 1940s was dominated by Peter Grimes, but there were other substantial pieces from this period too. The most important is Serenade, the setting of six English ...

You'd be hard pressed to assemble a more heterogeneous musical program than that presented Tuesday night by the Dallas Chamber Symphony: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Britten's Serenade for tenor ...

Twentieth-century British composer Benjamin Britten is likely the greatest since Henry Purcell and his Serenade, Op. 31 for tenor, (French) horn and strings, is one of the masterpieces of the 20th ...

Hornist Molly Norcross performed in Britten's "Serenade for tenor, horn and strings" with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on Friday, March 16, 2018.(Lawrence ...

The Serenade's status as a darkly dazzling 20th-century classic is founded on Britten's unerring ear for finding and setting English poetry, coupled with his instinctive sense of instrumental and ...