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Lennox Berkeley: Concerto for Two Pianos; Michael Berkeley: Concerto for Orchestra 'Seascapes'
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
My loyal companion Aaron writes from his exile in Oregon to suggest that opera fans here on JMG would enjoy Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten, which comes out today. A review in the Guardian UK headlined Boys, Bitching, Brilliance notes: Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Writings show composer as lonely but driven and with low opinions of his rivals Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31. But now, the diaries the composer kept for a decade from the age of 14 are to be published and they reveal a lonely but driven schoolboy; a young man exposed to a glamorous world...