ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Benjamin Britten

Showing posts with label Benjamin Britten. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Benjamin Britten. Show all posts

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Playing

Benjamin Britten
BRITTEN SONGS

Ian Bostridge

Antonio Pappano, Xuefei Yang

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Playing

Jakob Lindberg
NOCTURNAL

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Playing

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen
POETRY IN MOTION

Choral Works by William Harris, Sir Michael Tippett, Thomas Weelkes, James MacMillan, Ivor Gurney, Robert Ramsey, Benjamin Britten, Edmund Rubbra, Michael East, Herbert Howells, Robert Pearsall, and Thomas Tomkins

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Currently Playing

Kim Kashkashian

LACHRYMAE

Dennis Russell Davies

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

-Paul Hindemith – Trauermusik

- Benjamin Britten - Lachrymae Op. 48a (Reflections on a Song by John Dowland)

- Krzystof Penderecki - Konzert für Viola und Kammerorchester

Friday, August 11, 2023

Currently Playing

Benjamin Britten

SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA, OP. 68
DEATH IN VENICE SUITE, OP. 88

Raphael Wallfisch

Steuart Bedford

English Chamber Orchestra

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Benjamin Britten

STRING QUARTETS AND DIVERTIMENTI

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Belcea Quartet

String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25

String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94

Monday, September 26, 2022

1930s VIOLIN CONCERTOS, VOL I

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Gil Shaham

David Robertson, Juanjo Mena, New York Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Samuel Barber

VIOLIN CONCERTO, OP. 14

Alban Berg

VIOLIN CONCERTO “TO THE MEMORY OF AN ANGEL”

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

CONCERTO FUNÈBRE FOR SOLO VIOLIN AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Igor Stravinsky

VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR

Benjamin Britten

VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, OP. 15

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Benjamin Britten
WAR REQUIEM, OP. 66
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Sabina Cvilak, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside

Gianandrea Noseda

London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
Choir of Eltham College

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Benjamin Britten
SERENADE FOR TENOR, HORN, AND STRINGS

Ian Bostridge

Simon Rattle
Berliner Philharmoniker

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Benjamin Britten
STRING QUARTETS 1, 2, and 3

Takács Quartet

Saturday, August 17, 2019

WAR REQUIEM

Benjamin Britten

Gianandrea Noseda
Ian Bosridge, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Choir of Eltham College

BRITTEN SONGS

Ian Bostridge

Antonio Pappano
Xuefei Yang

Sunday, February 10, 2019

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Benjamin Britten, 1954

Daniel Harding

Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers, Vivian Tierney,

Jane Henschel, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Erato, 2002

Saturday, February 9, 2019

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

Benjamin Britten, 1946

Oliver Knussen

Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves,

Peter Coleman-Wright, Hilary Summers, Benjamin Russell, Claire Booth

Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble

Virgin Classics, 2013

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.