How To Use Britten In A Sentence
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Mr. Tritle's wish-list for future projects includes great Romantic canvases like César Franck's "Les Béatitudes" and Charles Gounod's epic oratorio "Mors et Vita," as well as 20th-century landmarks like the Britten "War Requiem" and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass.
The Master of Many Choruses
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It sounded a bit like a tonal American symphony written by a Russian who knows his Britten.
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These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution.
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The delightful Finnish soprano is the first of a distinguished group of vocal recitalists at Brian McMaster's final festival, performing songs by Mozart, Sibelius, Schoenberg and Britten.
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Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic.
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In formal structure, Mortal Thoughts blends two rich but infrequently employed musical traditions: the chamber operas of Benjamin Britten and his musical descendants (characterized by the use of small orchestral forces) and the experimental, edgy opera monodramas of composers like Schoenberg, (Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand) and Poulenc (La voix humaine).
Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do
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Benjamin Britten was a British composer who was notable in the twentieth century.
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Britten's setting is mimetic and operatic, the piano part consisting of a stylisation of the boy's fiddling, notated on one stave only.
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But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score.
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Rational Review
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But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score.
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Auden, in his librettos for Britten, Stravinsky, and Henze, established himself as an important writer in the form.
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Britten was particularly revered for his vocal scores for children, which captured their imagination and interest without condescension.
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Britten N. Lay views of drugs and medicines: orthodox and unorthodox accounts.
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Hanna does not overlook Britten's peccadilloes.
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However, Finley's voice generally lacks the dark quality with which Fischer-Dieskau could cloak his sound when required, and which Britten exploits in settings such as the creepingly chromatic A Poison Tree andAh Sun-flower.
Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc
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The chorus negotiated Britten's difficult choral lines with conviction and the orchestra rose to the challenge of interpreting Britten's demanding score.
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He also knocked off the considerable technical challenges in the Britten work, as well as in the vividly coloristic Five Pieces on Folk Themes by Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze.
Amit Peled strikes a romantic mood
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One would have to go back half a century to Benjamin Britten to find a composer whose works are regularly performed by opera companies worldwide.
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(As if that weren 't unfair enough, Mr. Britten was a pretty decent violist, too.)
Unforgettable in More Than One Way
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The two discs also contain two of Britten's lesser-known song-cycles.
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The real difference is observable in the breakdown of scenes and the manner in which Britten chooses to deploy the dramatic action.
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In Humphrey Carpenter's pedestrian biography of Britten, there is a fascinating quote from the adult David Hemmings after the author asked him about what kind of hanky-panky went on between the young Hemmings and the besotted composer while they created "The Turn of The Screw," which premiered in Venice.
Archive 2008-05-01
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It lay for me, somewhere between the voice and horn of that special performance of Britten's Serenade - rather than the oboe and the cor anglais, its immediate oboistic neighbours.
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Mr Carpenter is obviously a devotee of Britten'smusic.
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Pears sang the leading roles in all of the operas from Peter Grimes to Death in Venice, and extracts from his letters are printed here alongside Britten's.
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Britten used the 12-note system to provide a classic opera of dramatic tension counterpointed by exquisite melody.
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My friend Bernd is the Opera director there, and is a bit frantic right now since he had to keep dashing off to sit in on rehearsals and nonesuch, plus I tagged along with him to this site visit for where they're going to do a Benjamin Britten piece in a church.
Breakfast in Bed
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Berg's Wozzeck is one forerunner, but Britten and Mrs Piper deserve the accolade of being unconscious innovators.
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But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten's operas.
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Vickers understood the nature of evil and the essence of Britten's ambivalence; his robust tenor voice was more convincing than the restrained tones of the reedy Pears.
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The composer's cue was clear: Britten even gets his music out of the way at each dramatic turn.
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Britten betrays his workmanlike approach to composing here: there was no question of waiting for inspiration to descend.
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Britten could not have had access to his earlier score when composing the War requiem some 20 years later, and it must remain a matter of conjecture whether the similarities are deliberate or just coincidental.
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Written in the form of a theme and variations, Britten composed a central theme based on a melody by the first great English composer, Henry Purcell.
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A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal.
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For instance, we can hear Copland-esque rhythmic jauntiness in mailman Mario's funny exchanges with Neruda and out-takes of Britten's Peter Grimes to indicate foreboding, and even hints of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in some choral passages.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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But it is not in the forces involved that I would locate the main divide in Britten's operas.
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Some of it is ingenious, most notably Britten's ability to blend several of the original melodies to form duets or ensembles, but the end result remains both conventionally operatic and alarmingly sanitised.
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The singers, choruses and orchestras that Britten conducts are among the finest that were ever recorded with a veritable array of British talent that one only dreams of assembling.
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Although less well known than Britten, Tippett's operatic output was in many ways more musically varied and politically challenging.
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“Mrs. Britten-Jones, we’ve been talking to Licky, and it seems like the sensible thing to do is to …” There’s something about the way she’s looking at me that makes me hesitant to use the word cancel. “… postpone the wedding for the time being …”
Confetti Confidential
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His musicianship makes him an interpreter who can put more than most oboists into Britten's microscopic mouldings.
