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Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No.3 in G major - Professor Roger Parker and the Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 6,680 views
This is the third in a series of three talks and performances marking the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. The Badke Quartet will perform Britten's String Quartet No 3 in G major (1975).
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no3
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No.2 in C major - Professor Roger Parker and the Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 2,581 views
A talk and performance to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. The Badke Quartet will perform Britten's String Quartet No 2 in C major (1945) after a short lecture by Professor Roger Parker FBA.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no2
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently nearly 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No.1 in D major - Professor Roger Parker and the Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 3,595 views
A talk and performance to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Professor Roger Parker discusses Benjamin Britten's first string quartet, before The Badke Quartet performs in full the String Quartet No 1 in D major (1941).
The transcript and downloadable versions of this event by Professor Roger Parker and The Badke Quartet are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no1
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Late, 1971-1976 - Paul Kildea and Mark Milhofer
by GreshamCollege 1,527 views
'In the history of art late works are the catastrophes,' proposed Theodor Adorno. In this illustrated lecture Paul Kildea, author of the first major biography of Benjamin Britten in twenty years, disputes the narrative of decline that has engulfed Britten's music since the early 1970s.
The 'catastrophe' in Britten's music was not its quality, but how little traction it has had in the past forty years. Kildea unpicks Britten's precarious health and shows how it made him more determined than ever to write down the music that was on his mind. He discusses key late works -- including Death in Venice, Phaedre, the String Quartet No. 3 -- and how Britten saw them as a way of finishing old business and charting new territory. In this lecture, as in the previous two, Kildea looks at the personal and emotional insecurities that helped shape the twentieth century's consummate musician.
This is the third in a series of three lectures in which conductor Paul Kildea, author of a major new biography of composer Benjamin Britten, explores the life and music of this colossal twentieth-century artist.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/darkness-audible-benjamin-britten-at-100-late-1971-1976
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently nearly 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Middle, 1945-1970 - Dr Paul Kildea
by GreshamCollege 971 views
The success of Peter Grimes caught Britten by surprise. It gave him enormous capital, but for the most part he chose to spend it outside London, away from the emerging music institutions the new Labour government was determined would establish the sort of cultural infrastructure Britain's recent enemy, Germany, took for granted. Britten felt more comfortable participating first-hand in the Continental traditions Britain was now emulating, distrustful of the architects and executors of this new national culture. In this illustrated lecture Kildea explores the stylistic and philosophical changes in Britten's music in this 'middle period', the obsessions and vision that kept him an outsider no matter the determination of many to bring him into the club, and how he retreated both personally and stylistically in the 1960s, suspicious of the fame the War Requiem had brought him. Kildea covers the composition of Billy Budd, the jealousies and stupidities governing the debacle of Gloriana, and the creation of one of the greatest festivals and concert halls in the world.
This is the second in a series of three lectures in which conductor Paul Kildea, author of a major new biography of composer Benjamin Britten, explores the life and music of this colossal twentieth-century artist.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/darkness-audible-benjamin-britten-at-100-middle-1945-1970
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently nearly 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Early, 1913-1945 - Paul Kildea and Mark Milhofer
by GreshamCollege 2,297 views
On the day Penguin publishes Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, the first major biography of Britten in twenty years, author Paul Kildea traces the emergence of the greatest English musician of the last century.
In this illustrated lecture Kildea explores the influences on Britten in his first decades -- conservative and progressive, social and musical, political and sexual -- and how this middle-class boy, who grew up writing music in an early-nineteenth-century manner and playing Beethoven sonatas and works by Wagner and Brahms, became the composer of Peter Grimes, a work that changed the face of English music.
This is the first in a series of three lectures in which conductor Paul Kildea, author of a major new biography of composer Benjamin Britten, explores the life and music of this colossal twentieth-century artist.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/darkness-audible-benjamin-britten-at-100-early-1913-1945
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently nearly 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No. 1 (1st Movement) - Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 843 views
Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No.1 Op.25 (1941): Andante sostenuto - Allegro vivo
Performed by the Badke Quartet
Charlotte Scott - First Violin
Emma Parker - Second Violin
Jon Thorne - Viola
Jonathan Byers - Cello
This performance is taken from a lecture given by Professor Roger Parker at Gresham College and can be found at the following link: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no1
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No. 1 (2nd Movement) - Badke Quartet
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Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No.1 Op.25 (1941): Allegretto con slancio
Performed by the Badke Quartet
Charlotte Scott - First Violin
Emma Parker - Second Violin
Jon Thorne - Viola
Jonathan Byers - Cello
This performance is taken from a lecture given by Professor Roger Parker at Gresham College and can be found at the following link: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no1
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No. 1 (3rd Movement) - Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 232 views
Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No.1 Op.25 (1941): Andante Calmo
Performed by the Badke Quartet
Charlotte Scott - First Violin
Emma Parker - Second Violin
Jon Thorne - Viola
Jonathan Byers - Cello
This performance is taken from a lecture given by Professor Roger Parker at Gresham College and can be found at the following link:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no1
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No. 1 (4th Movement) - Badke Quartet
by GreshamCollege 305 views
Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No.1 Op.25 (1941): Molto vivace
Performed by the Badke Quartet
Charlotte Scott - First Violin
Emma Parker - Second Violin
Jon Thorne - Viola
Jonathan Byers - Cello
This performance is taken from a lecture given by Professor Roger Parker at Gresham College and can be found at the following link:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/britten-and-the-string-quartet-a-classical-impulse-string-quartet-no1
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.
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