A new statue that honours a coastal town's most famous son is set to be unveiled on its seafront next summer. It comes as a two-and-a-half year campaign to create a statue of Benjamin Britten, as a ...

Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes is joined by leading musicians in a community campaign to install a statue of much-loved composer Benjamin Britten on the seafront in Lowestoft. Born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East ...

For this month’s Slate Book Review, I wrote about at a new biography of Benjamin Britten. In that book, author Neil Powell bridles a bit at the reductive assessment of scholar and critic Richard ...

This was a virtuosic, witty performance of a mixed programme of works mostly by Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland, who spent the summer of 1939 together in Woodstock ...

While clicking through Britten 100, the website dedicated to the centenary of British composer Benjamin Britten, you might begin to suspect that the composer is not exactly in danger of being ...

It’s hard to think of many works of art that centre on a man subsuming his time and talents in order to encourage a woman’s prodigious creativity – the same cannot be said of the reverse. With the RSC ...

I always perform a lot of Britten's music, but this year having been the 100th anniversary of his birth, this steady diet has become something of a feast. I'm always asked what draws me to Britten's ...

Benjamin Britten moved back to Suffolk and founded the Aldeburgh Festival and helped build the Snape Maltings Concert Hall The birthplace of Benjamin Britten that was his seafront family home for more ...

Composer, conductor and pianist, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) unquestionably ranks as one of the 20th century's major musical figures, especially celebrated for his operatic masterpieces, "Peter Grimes, ...

As the Benjamin Britten centenary reaches its climax, here are ten good reasons why we think the 20th century English composer is one of the all-time greats. 4 He transformed the quality of British ...

There’s been nothing like it in musical history: even Beethoven and Mozart have never been so magnificently honoured. Benjamin Britten’s hundredth birthday was celebrated on Friday in 44 countries, ...