When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was, of course, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the farewell of all farewells. But on a happier note, Rattle led a performance of Benjamin ...

The top billing went to Strauss’ epic “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” The scene-stealer at Seattle Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night, however, was the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang and her ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The debate continues over whether Britten’s Violin Concerto, a product of his early maturity, is a masterwork or ...

Benjamin Britten composed his only violin concerto in 1938-9 during an exile of sorts in North America: he had left England as a pacifist and would return in 1942 as a conscientious objector. It's a ...

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Written as a requiem to the fallen in the Spanish Civil War, Britten’s Violin Concerto captures his despair of the conflict and the rising spectre of the Second World War. The work, which contains ...

Chandos's Britten recording (left) is an all-British affair. The Onyx recording of the Violin Concerto brings together a Canadian soloist, a Ukrainian conductor and a British orchestra for a ...

The Britten centenary year is turning out to be just the excuse we needed to revisit not only the composer's familiar masterpieces but some of his lesser-known music as well. This week began with ...