Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Britten centenary is turning into a CD bonanza. Hot on the heels of Ian Bostridge’s song anthology comes this ...

Simon Rattle's farewell concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was, of course, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the farewell of all farewells. But on a happier note, Rattle led a performance of Benjamin ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the time of his death Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto was a relative rarity, whether in concerts or ...

This is a great album, though its contents may make it problematic for some. Britten's Violin Concerto, modelled in part on Berg's and triggered by the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, was completed ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Baiba Skride, Violin Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop, Conductor Double Concerto for Violin and Viola Baiba Skride, Violin Ivan Vukčević, Viola Vienna ...

Chandos's Britten recording (left) is an all-British affair. The Onyx recording of the Violin Concerto brings together a Canadian soloist, a Ukrainian conductor and a British orchestra for a ...

Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang calls Britten’s Violin Concerto “one of the greatest dramas in the repertoire” and has described “never feeling closer to death” than when playing the piece. What she ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The 25-year-old Benjamin Britten's self-described "bravura" Piano Concerto of 1938 attracted early critical brickbats for its "angry blatancy," "cleverness" and "errors of taste". His 1939 "rather ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Marrucino Theatre Orchestra, Chieti Benjamin Britten, Composer Livia Sohn, Violin Luigi Piovano, Conductor Jiyeh Jonathan Berger, Composer Henk Guittart, Conductor ...