Their discography for EMI includes Fauré ’ s La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge ; Schubert ’ s Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long ; a double disc of Britten ’ s string quartets, which won a MIDEM Cannes Award ; Mozart ’ s “ Dissonance ” and “ Hoffmeister ” quartets ; and the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's prestigious Echo Klassik Awards and nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award.

At the 1979 awards, " Goosebumps " also won the Best Songwriter award for Terry Britten.

At the same ceremony, Britten won the ' Best Songwriter ' award for " Goosebumps ".

He has won, among other prizes, the Tippett Award and the Britten Prize.

Following the financial loss of the tour, it was decided that Glyndebourne would not send out any more tours, and in response, Britten along with Peter Pears, his librettist Eric Crozier and designer John Piper set up The English Opera Group with the express role of presenting new opera on tour.

", Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Augustus John, George Orwell, Herbert Read ( chairman ), Osbert Sitwell and George Woodcock set up the Freedom Defence Committee to " uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organizations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action.

The poem is among those set in the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten.

The poem is among those set in the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten.

Wittgenstein later commissioned works for the left hand from other composers including Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev, and Franz Schmidt ( the finale of Schmidt's A major Clarinet Quintet-the last of his Wittgenstein commissions-is a set of variations on a theme by Labor from Labor's own clarinet and piano quintet, his opus 11 published in 1901 ).

In the 1960 revue Beyond the Fringe, the English humourist and musician Dudley Moore sang " Little Miss Muffet " in the style of Peter Pears and as if it had been set to music by Benjamin Britten.

* Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd, and the opera based on it by Benjamin Britten, are set immediately after the main mutinies.

As the Kyrie is the first item in settings of the mass ordinary and the second in the requiem mass ( the only mass proper set regularly over the centuries ), numerous composers have included Kyries in their masses, including Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Cherubini, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Arvo Pärt, Mark Alburger, and Erling Wold.

Examples of prolation canons from different eras include Le Ray Au Soleyl by Johannes Ciconia ( late 14th century ); the entire Missa prolationum by Johannes Ockeghem ( mid-15th century ), in which each separate section of the mass explores a different prolation ( or different gap between entries and relative speed of each voice ); the Agnus Dei from the Missa L ' homme armé super voces musicales by Josquin des Prez ( late 15th century ); the Agnus Dei from the Missa L ' homme armé by Pierre de la Rue ( early 16th century ); the Canon a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem, the last in a set of 14 canons written as an appendix to the Goldberg Variations, by Johann Sebastian Bach ; and in the 20th century, the Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten by Arvo Pärt ( 1976 ).

In connection with the same celebration, he was invited by Benjamin Britten to contribute to a collaborative work, a set of Variations on an Elizabethan Theme.

British composer Benjamin Britten ( 1913 – 1976 ) set a selection of Illuminations to music.

Benjamin Britten set it to music as a part of his Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in 1943, and, in his Cantata on Old English Texts of 1952, Igor Stravinsky uses individual verses as interludes between the longer movements.

64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

After having composed and staged The Rape of Lucretia, Britten decided he should attempt a comedy, preferably set in England.

Benjamin Britten set Sitwell's text to music in his third Canticle in a series of five.

In the 20th century, the Noah's Flood play was set operatically by both Benjamin Britten ( Noye's Fludde ) and Igor Stravinsky ( The Flood ).

Auden's " Funeral Blues " ( also known as " Stop all the clocks ", later to become famous through its use in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ) was originally written for Anderson and set to music by Britten as part of Auden and Isherwood's play The Ascent of F6 ( 1936 ), then revised by Auden as a separate poem.

Poems from both books have been set to music by many composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Holbrooke, John Frandsen, Per Drud Nielsen, Sven-David Sandström, Benjamin Britten, and Jacob ter Veldhuis.

Most notable among these are Henry Cowell ( Ongaku, 1957 ), La Monte Young ( numerous works of drone music, but especially Trio for Strings, 1958 ), Alan Hovhaness ( numerous works ), Olivier Messiaen ( Sept haïkaï, 1962 ), Lou Harrison ( Pacifika Rondo, 1963 ), Benjamin Britten ( Curlew River, 1964 ), and Bengt Hambraeus ( Shogaku, from Tre Pezzi per Organo, 1967 ).

Ainsley has made numerous recordings that range from Monteverdi to Britten.

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.

There she was responsible for the musical direction of numerous productions, notably Pelléas et Mélisande, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Finta Giardiniera, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Les Brigands by Offenbach, L ' Heure espagnole and L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Haydn's Il Mondo della luna, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, The Rape of Lucretia by Britten and Le Chapeau de paille d ' Italie by Nina Rota, whilst La Station Thermale ( recorded by Ricordi ) and Les Oiseaux de Passage by Fabio Vacchi and Dédale by Hugues Dufourt ( recorded on CD by MFA / Radio France ) are among her world creations.

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

Britten and Pears recorded the piece with Dennis Brain and the Boyd Neel Orchestra in October 1944, and again in a famous recording for Decca records in 1963, when Barry Tuckwell took the horn part and the London Symphony Orchestra accompanied.

These include two complete sets of the Brandenburg concertos, the Orchestral Suites and The Art of Fugue, several albums of Bach vocal cantatas, many Telemann, Vivaldi, many Mozart and Haydn works, but also award-winning records of Britten, Roussel and Hindemith pieces.

* Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's by Nick Britten

Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on 22 November 1913, the youngest of four children.

Both Britten and Pears applied for recognition as conscientious objectors ; Britten was initially allowed only non-combatant service in the military, but gained unconditional exemption on appeal.

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.

Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.

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.

* Billy Budd ( 1951 ) ( with Eric Crozier ; based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Benjamin Britten )

In classical music Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.

Britten himself acknowledged the stylistic influence of the Requiems of other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem on his own composition.

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.

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.

It originally was a functioning water tower which was slated for demolition until Ralph Britten bought it and moved it to serve as a sign for his truck stop and tourist information center ( located on a stretch of interstate that was once a part of U. S. Route 66 ).

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.

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.

Other composers of Hölderlin settings include Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss ( Drei Hymnen ), Max Reger ( An die Hoffnung ), Alphons Diepenbrock ( Die Nacht ), Richard Wetz ( Hyperion ), Josef Matthias Hauer, Hermann Reutter ( an opera, a choral work, 18 songs ), Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna ( Hyperion, Stele an Diotima ), Heinz Holliger ( the Scardanelli-Zyklus ), Hans Zender ( Hölderlin lesen I-IV ), György Kurtág ( who planned an opera on Hölderlin ), György Ligeti ( Hölderlin-Phantasien ), Hanns Eisler ( Hollywood Liederbuch ), Viktor Ullmann ( who wrote settings in Terezin concentration camp ), Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Walter Zimmermann ( Hyperion, an epistolary opera ) and Wolfgang Rihm.

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.

Important 20th century works have been written for string orchestra by Bartók ( Divertimento for String Orchestra ), Stravinsky ( Apollo ), Witold Lutosławski ( Musique funèbre ), Benjamin Britten ( Simple Symphony and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge ), Charles Wuorinen ( Grand Bamboula ), and Malcolm Williamson ( Symphony No. 7 ).

Examples include Benjamin Britten ( A Ceremony of Carols ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( Fantasia on Christmas Carols ) and Victor Hely-Hutchinson ( Carol Symphony ).