The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir were conducted by Bernard Haitink ; the chamber orchestra ( consisting of Concertgebouw Orchestra instrumentalists ) by Britten himself.

The first recording, featuring Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau and Pears, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Britten, was produced in 1963.

In 1979, Rostropovich conducted the Britten – Pears School in a performance of Eugene Onegin ( with Pears as guest in the role of M. Triquet, and Eric Crozier as the valet Guillot ).

Benjamin Britten conducted recordings of many of his compositions for Decca, from the 1940s through the 1970s ; most of these recordings have been reissued on CD.

When its dedicatee, Rostropovich gave the first performance, at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten, who conducted the performance, regarded it as a major work, and persuaded Bliss to change its title from " Concertino " to Concerto.

Britten conducted the orchestra on several occasions, and made a number of records with the group.

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

Richard Adeney was closely associated with Benjamin Britten, and performed in many performances and recordings of the composer's works, notably in 1962 with the Melos Ensemble in the premiere and recording of the War Requiem that Britten conducted himself.

** Robert M. Jones ( art director ) & Jan Balet ( graphic artist ) for Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals / Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler

The music was performed by the Sinfonia of London conducted by Howard Blake and Tony Britten.

His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of which have received Grammy Award nominations, including O Magnum Mysterium by the Tiffany Consort, A Company of Voices by Conspirare, Sound The Bells by The Bay Brass and two all-Lauridsen discs entitled Lux Aeterna by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Paul Salamunovich and Polyphony with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton.

Works include O Magnum Mysterium, Lux Aeterna, Madrigali, Dirait-on, and Nocturnes, with soundtracks by Polyphony ( choir ) and Britten Sinfonia ( conducted by Stephen Layton ), The Singers / Minnesota Choral Artists ( conducted by Matthew Culloton ), and the Dale Warland Singers ( conducted by Dale Warland ).

The UK premiere was held at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1970 and was conducted by the dedicatee, Benjamin Britten.

Michael was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral, and he frequently sang in works composed or conducted by his godfather, Benjamin Britten.

Britten conducted the premiere, there were 17 curtain calls, and Uppman was acclaimed a new star.

The 1960 BBC broadcast was conducted by Britten himself, with Joseph Ward as Billy, Peter Pears as Vere and Michael Langdon as Claggart.

During his first Pittsburgh season, Steinberg conducted works by Bartók, Berg, Bloch, Britten, Copland, Harris, Honegger, Milhaud, Schuman, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Villa-Lobos at the Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival ( all of these performances appeared on record, and the Bloch, Schuman, and Vaughan Williams were licensed by Capitol ).

Britten ); with English Opera Group conducted by Benjamin Britten.

* Albert Herring ( Benjamin Britten ); with English Opera Group conducted by Benjamin Britten.

Britten was the first composer to be given a life peerage.

His father, Robert Victor Britten, was a dentist, and his mother Edith Rhoda Hockey, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation.

There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears ( Britten composed his first individual work for Pears in 1937, as part of The Company of Heaven for the BBC ).

While in America Britten wrote his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta ( to a libretto by Auden ).

In the meantime, Britten had had his first encounter with Balinese gamelan music through the transcriptions for two pianos made by the Canadian composer Colin McPhee.

Britten first met McPhee at Stanton Cottage in the summer of 1939, and the two subsequently performed a number of McPhee's transcriptions for a recording.

Having previously declined a knighthood, Britten accepted a life peerage – the first composer to have been so honoured – on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk.

Pears and Britten gave their first recital together in 1937 at Balliol College, Oxford University.

There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears.

For the first six years of the Aldeburgh Festival, the joint Artistic Directors remained Britten, Pears and Crozier ; in 1955, Britten and Pears were in sole charge, then the following year they were joined by Imogen Holst, who remained a member of the Artistic Directorate until her death in 1984.

In 1999, a sole Artistic Director in the Britten mould – composer, solo performer, accompanist and conductor – was appointed in Thomas Adès, joined in 2004 by composer John Woolrich, first as Guest Artistic Director then as an Associate Artistic Director.

The Royal Opera presented A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream in the first season, and on 16 June 1973, the first performance of Britten ’ s final opera, Death in Venice, was given at the Concert Hall, with Pears in the role of Aschenbach.

Other works from this period are the Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles, commissioned in 1948 by the BBC, the song-cycle The Heart's Assurance, written in memory of Francesca Allinson and first performed in 1951 by Britten and Pears, and the 1953 Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

In their first year these were held in the Britten Hall of the Royal College of Music ( just across Prince Consort Road from the Albert Hall ).

* June 5-Opening of the first Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears.

In 2009, a suite of new spaces at Snape Maltings, including the Hoffmann Building ’ s Britten Studio and the Jerwood Kiln Studio, was opened with the premiere performance of Harrison Birtwistle ’ s The Corridor.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

Benjamin Britten gave the first rediscovered performance of the Hamburg version in 1967, after it had been lost for over seventy years.

Another notable performance came in 1987 when the choir gave the first performance in the northwest of Benjamin Britten ’ s enormous War Requiem.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.

In 1964, he played Lyle Britten in Blues for Mister Charlie, and four years later he was Roberto in The Cuban Thing for its only performance on September 24, 1968.

*' Britten and Bridge ', lecture and performance investigating the relation between the two composers, Gresham College, 5 February 2008 ( available for download as text, audio or video file ).

Saint Nicolas marks Britten ’ s first professional work intended primarily for performance by amateur musicians.

It was composed for string orchestra and received its first performance in 1934 at Stuart Hall in Norwich, with Britten conducting an amateur orchestra.

Through public performance, his lyric tenor voice brought to life the great works of Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten.