Bream's collaborations with tenor Peter Pears also resulted in song cycles by Britten, Lennox Berkeley and others.

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

The subject also enjoyed a revival in the mid twentieth century ; André Obey's 1931 play Le Viol de Lucrèce was adapted into a 1946 opera by Benjamin Britten.

Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

Although ultimately dissuaded by his parents ( at the suggestion of College staff ), Britten had also intended postgraduate study with Alban Berg in Vienna.

Its quality did not always record well, but there is no doubt that he had unusually good articulation and vocal agility, of which Britten also took advantage.

In English the most thorough treatment of Bellman's life is also by Paul Britten Austin.

It has seen the premières of several works by Britten ( A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1960 ; Death in Venice in 1973 ) and also Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy in 1968, The Io Passion in 2004 and The Corridor in 2009.

The building's fine acoustics are also finely suited to the music of Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten and Kenneth Leighton.

Britten was also renowned as a piano accompanist and together they recorded, among other works, Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor D. 821.

The RLPO's catalogue also includes a symphony cycle and other works by Beethoven with Sir Charles Mackerras, Britten, Mahler symphonies with Schwarz, Pešek and Mackerras, as well as many works of Rachmaninov, Smetana, Richard Strauss with those conductors.

The song did not catch fire in the U. S. but was a major hit in England, where it charted a second time in 1963 after being covered by Liverpool beat band Buddy Britten and the Regents, also appearing in instrumental form on The Shadows ' debut LP.

Though they emphasized a standard Classical and Romantic repertory, they also performed works by such 20th-century composers as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten who wrote his third quartet expressly for them.

His notable output of biographies included: J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1977 ) ( also editing of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien ), The Inklings ( 1978 ), W. H. Auden ( 1981 ), Ezra Pound ( 1988 ), Evelyn Waugh ( 1989 ), Benjamin Britten ( 1992 ), Robert Runcie ( 1997 ), and Spike Milligan ( 2004 ).

The composer and renowned Lieder accompanist Benjamin Britten also wrote cycles that are among the glories of the literature, including The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, and Winter Words, all with piano accompaniment, and the orchestral Les Illuminations, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, and Nocturne.

Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten.

Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from the opera by Benjamin Britten also based on the novella.

Fischer-Dieskau also performed many works of contemporary music, including Benjamin Britten ( who chose Fischer-Dieskau as the baritone soloist when writing War Requiem ), Samuel Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( who wrote his Gesangsszene for him ), Ernst Krenek, Witold Lutosławski, Siegfried Matthus, Othmar Schoeck, Winfried Zillig, Gottfried von Einem and Aribert Reimann.

Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Gypsy Rose Lee, George Davis, Reeves McCullers and Auden's then lover, Chester Kallman, are also prominently featured.

As Principal Oboe of Britten Sinfonia, Daniel has frequently appeared as a member of the orchestra and also as a soloist / director.

Benjamin Britten also wrote an arrangement for voice and piano.

It also shows a concern for the concepts of time and memory, both in its use of quotations ( notably from Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten and Jehan Alain ), and in short interludes that recall material used in earlier movements and / or introduce ideas that will be fully developed later.

He also wrote a series on composers such as George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Benjamin Britten for younger readers.

He enjoyed a long association with Benjamin Britten, another old boy of Gresham's School, with whom he collaborated on a number of works ; these included Mont Juic, and Variations on an Elizabethan Theme ( the latter also with four other composers ).

In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.

By the 1960s, the Aldeburgh Festival was outgrowing its customary venues, and plans to build a new concert hall in Aldeburgh were not progressing, when redundant Victorian maltings buildings in the village of Snape, down the road from where Britten used to live, became available to hire.

It tends only to be used by performers of transcriptions or reworkings of folk music that have been made by composers from a classical, music-school background such as Benjamin Britten or Percy Grainger.

Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serialism only for some of their compositions or only for some sections of pieces.

On Aldeburgh's beach, a short distance north of the town centre, stands a sculpture, The Scallop, dedicated to Benjamin Britten, who used to walk along the beach in the afternoons.

The Britten theatre, which seats 400, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and is used for opera, ballet, music and theatre.

John Britten and Desmond Norman started developing crop-spraying equipment in the middle 1950s and used de Havilland Tiger Moths ( modified at their factory near Ventnor, Isle of Wight ) for a contract in Sudan.

Britten and Norman made a detailed analysis of the aviation market and decided there was a demand for a twin-engined utility aircraft with the minimum of complex systems that could operate from short, rough airstrips as well as be used for high-density commuter flights.

Benjamin Britten used it to great effect in many of his compositions, including parts of the War Requiem and especially his three Church Parables: Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son.

Today, the most well-known baroque hornpipe tune is probably Purcell's " Hornpipe Rondeau " from the incidental music to Abdelazer ( which was used by Benjamin Britten as the theme for his Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra ) or the ' Alla Hornpipe ' movement from the D major of Handel's Water Music suites.

" Sanctus " is a straight reading in Latin from the Requiem as used by Benjamin Britten in his War Requiem.

The melody and verses of The Water is Wide are used by Benjamin Britten for his arrangement which does not have the O Waly, Waly verse, yet it is titled Waly, Waly.

At first the Festival used local halls and churches but in 1967, Britten and Pears created a permanent home at Snape, 5 miles from Aldeburgh, by converting the Victorian maltings into an 832-seat venue.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

The Concert Hall was destroyed by fire in 1969, but Britten was determined that it would be rebuilt in time for the following year ’ s Festival, which it duly was.

Forster included Buckingham and his wife May in his circle, which included J. R. Ackerley, a writer and literary editor of The Listener, the psychologist W. J. H. Sprott and, for a time, the composer Benjamin Britten.

The following year, Benjamin Britten conducted the first performance of it since Mahler's time at the Aldeburgh Festival.

His education at Alleyn's School and the Glyn Grammar School led him to start his career performing as a boy soprano in several works by the composer Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time.

And besides, for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally – and now it would not come to that.

At the same time, composers such as Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, and Dmitri Shostakovich revived the idea of a sonata form by more complex and extended use of tonality.

Beyond the noh source dramatic material, Britten incorporated elements of noh treatment of theatrical time into this composition.

In 1947, along with his collaborator and future spouse Kathleen Britten, he spent a few months with von Neumann's team, which was the leading edge in computer research at the time.

At the same time, the Music Department developed a close relationship with Benjamin Britten, providing a considerable number of boy sopranos for his works, and in particular the young David Hemmings who started his stage career as Miles in the opera Turn of the Screw.

He became an active supporter of music, and commissioned numerous works of chamber music from emerging and leading British composers of his time, including chamber works by Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Eugène Goossens.

The Airlines of Tasmania fleet based there at that time ( 1 GAF Nomad, 2 Britten Norman Islanders, 2 Cessna 404 Titans, 1 Piper PA-31 Navajo, 1 Cessna 172 and 1 Aero Commander airplane ) were bought by the AAM Group and is operated for ground survey purposes since then.

Goodall also conducted at Glyndebourne, including another Britten premiere, this time of The Rape of Lucrece, which was also his first recording, with EMI.