I, too, find Britten a very mixed bag. Looking for two of my favourites I came across this lovely version of the Choral Dances from "Gloriana" by a Toronto University choral group, the Hart House Chorus.
It was the second movement "Concord" that I wanted to flag up as a high point in his output for me together with his arrangement of "Down by the Salley Gardens" with that wonderful flattened 7th clashing with the soloists 6th on the syllable "fool" of "foolish". Try Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake.
It was the second movement "Concord" that I wanted to flag up as a high point in his output for me together with his arrangement of "Down by the Salley Gardens" with that wonderful flattened 7th clashing with the soloists 6th on the syllable "fool" of "foolish". Try Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake.
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