Decca Icons: Benjamin Britten | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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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.
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My ex Danish wife was also an Aldeburgh student - I think in 1969 and I have many photos of him and Peter and their Alvis sports car…she also bought the World of Benjamin Britten lip - when the Frank Bridge extract you use was played in was astonished …the original recording is nothing like as clear or vivid….surely a ‘digital remaster from original tapes….perhaps i should see if ‘World of Britten’ is on CD - it has a fantastic selection of his music. We have bought War Requiem, Phaedra, the Prince of the Pagodas and The Little Sweep amongst other recordings and we loved the sound of the Aldeburugh on the pre,fire recordings