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Britten’s String Quartet No.3 40 years ago today

Rehearsing at Snape on the day of the premiere. Image by Nigel Luckhurst Britten completed his String Quartet No. 3, Op 94, in December 1975. Colin Matthews states that he...

New CD release of Imogen Holst’s chamber music

...releasing Imogen Holst: String Chamber Music on 22 September 2017. This award-winning album of first recordings of Imogen Holst’s chamber works was originally released on the Court Lane Music label...

Britten’s death day

Peter Pears’ diary © Britten-Pears Foundation Forty years ago, on 4 December 1976, Benjamin Britten died at The Red House in the arms of his long-term partner Peter Pears. He...

Rita Thomson, nurse to Benjamin Britten

...number of major works, including Canticle V The Death of Saint Narcissus, the orchestral Suite on English Folk Tunes ‘A time there was…’ and the third String Quartet which was...

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Vacancy – Graduate Trainee

...The post will include overseeing our Reading Room and dealing with enquiries about our Designated Collection from researchers, as well as project work in preservation, digitisation and description of our...

Obituary: Donald Mitchell

...of many years’ study. The result of his research can be seen in the series of books written over three decades The Early Years (1958), The Wunderhorn Years (1975), and...

Colin Matthews at 70

...music like Phaedra, String Quartet No. 3 and Welcome Ode (which he orchestrated under Britten’s direction). Colin himself takes up the story: ‘We arranged our next meeting for 9 November...

Obituary: John Woolford (Wulff Scherchen), 1920-2016

...Antique in the orchestral song cycle Les Illuminations bears the individual dedication ‘To K.H.W.S’ (Wulff’s initials). And in August the same year Britten’s opus 16, a work for piano, string...

22. String Quartet No.1

30 May 2018, featuring Lucy Walker.