The music world’s obsession with anniversaries means that this year we shall not be short of discs and performances of Benjamin Britten (born 1913), nor indeed of Wagner and Verdi (born 1813). None of ...

The Cleveland Orchestra’s winter and spring schedule spans centuries of music and has something for everyone. Our friends at ...

When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this week presents the first program of a two-week festival devoted to Benjamin Britten, audiences will have a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in a wide ...

MAN landed on the moon, the Beatles released Abbey Road, your reviewer was born, and Shostakovich completed his 14th Symphony. It was a busy year. It was also a year which the 62-year-old Russian ...

from Bach and Vivaldi to Shostakovich, Britten, Bernstein, Messiaen and Dutilleux. He has recorded virtually every major cello concerto, joined in chamber recordings from Rameau to Schubert to ...

It must take a certain amount of courage and self-assurance for a cellist to perform Britten's great Cello Symphony when Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist for whom the piece was written, is on the ...

During the last weekend in January, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and guest artist Emilio Colon performed a seldom-heard work, Benjamin Britten’s “Cello Symphony.” Written for the great cellist Mstislav ...

Thursday 12.03.2026 2.00pm Alban gerhardt plays britten's cello symphony Afternoon Performances on sale from 15 May 2025 £17.50 (includes restoration fund) - Early Bird Rate £20.50 (includes ...

Britten’s suites for solo cello are not perhaps an easy listen any more than they are easy to play, but Jamie Walton’s absorbing performances of all three seem to expose and explore the emotional ...

As part of a weekend at Snape Maltings celebrating Britten's relationship with Russia, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jac van Steen give a concert inspired by the long friendship ...

The Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s sixth segment in its Masterworks series, Romantic Passions, plans to showcase music representative of the Romantic era. The performance works scheduled to be ...

£16 if bought in advance. £19.00 if bought less than two weeks before concert (£6 for Students & Under 26s) ...