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Decca Icons: Benjamin Britten

Decca Icons: Benjamin Britten

FromThe Gramophone Classical Music Podcast


Decca Icons: Benjamin Britten

FromThe Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Sep 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In a series of four Decca Icons podcasts, Gramophone's James Jolly explores the artistry of four major recording musicians with Rob Cowan, Jed Distler and Richard Fairman. Focusing on recordings in the Decca catalogue, the series turns the spotlight on Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Georg Solti and, this week, Benjamin Britten. Each podcast is accompanied by a special Apple Music playlist.  In this final podcast, James talks to the Financial Times and Gramophone critic Richard Fairman about this towering figure in British musical life. Britten recorded for Decca, as composer, pianist and conductor, for most of his adult life and left a peerless catalogue of recordings, including one of the classics of the gramophone, the War Requiem.
Released:
Sep 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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