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...But there are tiers below: printed music by such people as William Byrd, the 16th-century English composer, remains accessible, says Cox....
...Thanks to the film, expertly directed by Margaret Williams, ‘Peter Grimes’ on Aldeburgh beach cannot be dismissed as a local event. The results are there for all to see in perpetuity....
...Procaccini’s is the dark side, depicting the rape of Lucretia, and Chiari’s “Perseus and Andromeda”, where the Greek hero saves the girl from a sea monster, is the light....
...Emma Bell is the suitably scary Miss Jessel, William Burden an insipid Quint. Anne-Marie Owens’s Mrs Grose doesn’t record well, but the children are excellent....
...The Rape of Lucretia was staged in the Castleton Theatre House, a 120-seat gem with an interior that looks like a miniature Glyndebourne....
...His favourite contemporary artists remained Augustus John, represented by some feeble portraits, and William Nicholson....
...Two of Britten’s chamber operas had their premieres here – The Rape of Lucretia in 1946 and Albert Herring in 1947 – so its appearance is not before time....
...Kennedy’s analysis, like much British liberal thought, went back to William Godwin, and his belief that “circumstance causes crime”....
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