Benjamin Britten: A Sketch of His Life and Works |
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accompaniment Albert apprentice ballet Balstrode Basil Wright Benjamin Britten Bianca Boar Boosey & Hawkes Borough Boyd Neel Cecilia Ceremony of Carols chamber orchestra choir choral church Coal Face collaboration composer composition concert Covent Garden Crabbe death Decca documentary film Edward Sackville-West England English Opera Eric Crozier Female Chorus Festival Frank Bridge fugal Glyndebourne harp horn Hymn to St incidental music instruments Interlude Joan Cross later libretto London Lucrece Lucretia motif lyric Male and Female Montagu Slater Moot Hall movement music to documentary Opera Company passacaglia passages percussion performance Peter Grimes Peter Pears produced Prologue Purcell Rape of Lucretia recitative Sadler's scene of Act score Serenade Sinfonia da Requiem Slater's libretto solo song Sonnets storm Strawinsky string orchestra String Quartet symphony orchestra Tarquinius tenor Theatre theme variations verse play viola violin vocal voice and piano W. H. Auden words by W. H. writing