Benjamin Britten

...of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninoff in particular. England too had a flowering of song, more closely associated however with folk song than with the 19th-century art song, in the 20th century represented by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.

In this article: Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Death and the Maiden, Hans Pfitzner, Carl Loewe, Hector Berlioz, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Anton Webern

...Mstislav Rostropovich. In Israel in 1977, Arthur Rubenstein, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, handed him the first of two Rubenstein medals he would win and called him "an extraordinary pianist". The 1980s were a blur of...

In this article: Paul Keating and Melbourne

...of the most theatrically powerful operas of the early 20th century, thus joins the likes of Wagner, Berg, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten whose works are enjoying their day on the Russian stage after finding scant place on the Soviet...

In this article: Leos Janacek, Jenufa, Maryinsky, The Makropulos Affair, Russia, and Suicide

...Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain and Switzerland as well as North and South America. He has also visited Russia in an ensemble directed by Benjamin Britten. Other distinguished musicians with whom he has performed include Casals, Poulenc,...

In this article: London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stereo Review, Royal College of Music, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Tortelier, Pablo Casals, and James Galway

...a good deal of admirable and expressive music was created by Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, but even their most ardent champions would find it difficult to claim that theirs was on a level...

In this article: Michael Tippett, World War II, Orlando Gibbons, London, New World Symphony, Henry Purcell, W.S. Gilbert, and NPR