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...Kitty Whateley and Timothy Nelson are excellent as Nancy and Sid, and Richard Pinkstone, at once truculent and downtrodden, makes a nicely unsentimental Albert, who celebrates his emancipation at the end...
...Having the orchestra on stage arguably gives it all a provisional feel, but being able to see the players of the outstanding Britten Sinfonia only adds to the madcap spectacle....
...Their music is almost uniformly elegiac and it has taken the composers of subsequent generations to explore the tragedy and suffering of that period, Britten’s War Requiem being the towering example....
...The futility of war will again be underlined on Thursday in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Andris Nelsons....
...Edward Nelson was the austere Ferryman, David Tinervia the sympathetic Traveller; the voice of Daniel Moody, a countertenor, soared at the riveting moment when the dead boy’s voice is miraculously heard....
...Bostridge, with Julius Drake on piano and Sally Pryce on harp (plus Iestyn Davies and Benedict Nelson in supporting vocal roles), sang with such focus on the inner drama that the words spoke for themselves...
...Placed among the chorus, as Britten intended, the soprano solo Erin Wall sounded warmly lyrical, rather than dominating....
...Benedict Nelson’s Budd is suitably lusty and Matthew Rose lends Claggart the impassivity of a sphinx, the physique of a wrestler and the snarl of a devil....
...His music always has a lyrical foundation, as Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire make clear in their scintillating recording of the Variations for piano duo....
...Benedict Nelson and Tamara Gura were the standout lovers. Leo Hussain and the orchestra spun a web of magic, making this one of the most intoxicating and disturbing ENO shows in recent memory. eno.org...
...Then baritone Benedict Nelson tackled the hardest nut, The Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, not flinching from their intensity, though a keener sense of light and shade might have softened their bleakness...
...Benjamin Britten in Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 25. Michael Vaughan 26....
...Other recent examples include Cambridge University Press, which sponsored a tour of South America by the Britten Sinfonia to coincide with the company’s restructuring in that continent, and Rolls Royce,...
...Richard Shone, editor of The Burlington Magazine, is unimpressed by the Nelson Mandela statue in Parliament Square – “arms and hands are outstretched as if showing how big the fish was that he caught” –...
...“Mark sometimes makes dramatic statements about things that then don’t come to pass,” says his agent Cathy Nelson, referring to Turnage’s vow after Tassie not to write another opera....
...The broker reiterated its scepticism about the necessity of Exel’s acquisition of Tibbett Britten....
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