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Britten to America : music for radio and theatre

Benjamin Britten

Reviews (3)

BBC music magazine

2014 July

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David Nice

2014 July

"Jean Rigby admirably handles the dialogue and the songs of the ambiguous mother figure in F6 ... The blues moments such as 'Stop all the clocks', feel a bit stiff. Mary Carewe, meanwhile, finds freedom in 'Where do we go from here' ... Plenty of food for thought and pleasure to be had here".

The gramophone

2014 March

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Richard Fairman

2014 March

"All the participants are excellent, especially actor Samuel West playing a portrait gallery of characters, and NMC's production standards are impeccable, rolling together spoken word, choruses and instruments so that the seams never show. A disc of incidental music should not be as much fun".

International record review

2014 March

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Piers Burton-Page

2014 March

"For all Britten's manifest versatility and lightning craftmanship, for all the skill and enterprise that has gone into making these fragments presentable, and the dedication of the performers, it is still hard to feel any sense of lost treasure having been unearthed. Though there is much that is interesting, and much that is indeed typical, it is certainly not essential Britten, or Britain".