The Britten Pears Archive
@BrittenOfficialThe Archive at @redhouse_alde, documenting the lives of Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and their creative circle. Cared for by @brittenpearsarts.
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Every autumn the new intake from Benjamin Britten Academy in Lowestoft visit the Red House and Snape Maltings, to learn about the local celebrity their school's named after. There's a busy schedule of visits to the @BrittenOfficial archive and we're up and running...
Moment of triumph: today's Stories from the Archive (on the links between Britten and Thomas Hardy via Gustav and Imogen Holst) took us over 1000 visitors for this season. Five more days of Stories to go; let's see where we get to before we close for the winter...
Everything in position for today's Stories From the Archive talks... we hit 900 visitors for the season last thing yesterday, so the push for 1000 begins this morning.
Glorious morning here at the Red House; as an extra bonus, we've just cracked 800 visitors to @BrittenOfficial Stories from the Archive talks for the 2024 Red House open season. Thanks to everyone who's come so far; a couple of months of the season still to go...
Timed to perfection: Imogen Holst's house in Aldeburgh, owned by @BrittenPears, is open this weekend for @heritageopenday, so you can go to the house and soak up the atmosphere then listen to some of her works...
💿OUT NOW - Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen💿 Featuring many world-premiere recordings, this album highlights the work of one of Britain’s most accomplished composers in performances by @BBCCO and @BBCSingers with conductor Alice Farnham. Listen & buy: nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/ne…
Judith from the Archive team has been cataloguing the papers of the English Opera Group: in this article for the @archiveshub she tells us about the new resources this makes available for researchers. blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/category/featu…
Stories from the Archive at @BrittenOfficial today takes us to the hot summer of 1976, the Aldeburgh Festival that year and the announcement of Britten's peerage. This morning's talk took us over 600 visitors this season: thanks to everyone who's come so far!
A summery morning at @redhouse_alde - as a nod to that, today's guided tours will get a concluding Story from the Archive set in the hot summer of 1976...
Today's Stories from the Archive at @BrittenOfficial: Britten, Pears and Indian music, and how sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan came to Aldeburgh for the 1958 Festival. The second running of the talk took us over the 500 listeners mark for this season.... 1/2
We celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Luxon, the first Owen Wingrave on TV & LP recording, who died a week ago. A magnificent interpreter of Britten’s music.
Happy birthday to David Hockney, born #OnThisDay 1937! One of the favourite artworks in the @BrittenOfficial collection is his drawing of Peter Pears, done for Pears' 70th birthday: you can read about it, and see the drawing, here. brittenpearsarts.org/news/70th-birt…
A new resource available just in time for the Aldeburgh Festival: all of the past programme books, back to the first Festival in 1948, are now digitised and can be viewed and downloaded at brittenpearsarts.org/news/aldeburgh…. #AldeburghFestival
Born #OTD 100 years ago, Sir Neville Marriner, who made several fine recordings of Britten, is seen here during the 1988 Aldeburgh Festival rehearsing Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 3 with the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Photo: Nigel Luckhurst
An anniversary I just missed: 80 years (and 2 days) ago, Britten and Pears performing at Mitcham County School for Girls, with music by Handel, Purcell, Schubert, Britten's mentor Frank Bridge, and Britten himself. The style of the programme reflects wartime paper-saving.
New open season at @redhouse_alde and we're a short time away from the first @BrittenOfficial Stories from the Archive session of 2024. Today's story features Britten, Dr. Beeching, King Lear and a mystery guest...
@BrittenOfficial recently had the pleasure of helping Swiss Radio & TV with a programme on the Red House, in their French language "L'Orielle d'Abord" series: you can listen to it as a podcast here rts.ch/audio-podcast/….
Judith and Nick from the @BrittenOfficial team are at Goldsmiths University of London for the Queer History Fair today - come and have a chat about the research resources we can offer! @QueerHistGold
#OTD in 1939 Auden and Isherwood's verse play "The Ascent of F6" opens: music is provided by the young Benjamin Britten and the scores and sketches are held in the @BrittenOfficial archive.
“I read the papers, there is nothing there But news of failure and despair: The savage train-wreck in the dead of night, The fire in the school, the children caught alight…” ‘The Ascent of F6’ by W.H. ##Auden and Christopher #Isherwood opens 26 February 1939
This Valentine's Day 💞 discover the love story of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. In our latest blog Dr. Christopher Hilton (@CHilton_BB) explores how art became the language of the couple's publicly unspoken bond. pallant.org.uk/perspectives-w…
'And I shall love you every moment' Peter Pears to Benjamin Britten, 1943.
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