BRITTEN CENTENARY
June 2013
The reputation of one of England's finest composers has been indelibly stained by his refusal to fight in the Second World War
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March 2013
The cult of Benjamin Britten lives on in Paul Kildea's new biography, painting the composer as a perennial victim
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November 2012
Benjamin Britten's gifts to British music, both as practitioner and patron, far outweigh his faults
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