Britten 50 Years On: Reflections on a Legacy
Sunday 22 November 2026 BOOK TICKETS
CONCERT – Reflections on a Legacy
4.30pm St Anne’s Church, High Street, Lewes
Pippa Dames-Longworth (mezzo soprano)
Nick Pritchard (tenor)
Andrew Smith (piano)
Ali Hancorn trumpet trio
Baroque Collective Singers – sopranos and altos
Dr Nicholas Clark – Britten Pears Arts
A concert for Britten’s birthday (22 November 1913), featuring his A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano, consisting of five songs composed on poems by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, Thomas Randolph and John Phillip; Britten’s song cycle Winter Words; and the original upper voices version of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. The music will be interspersed with fascinating reflections on Britten, with slides, from Dr Nicholas Clark (Britten Pears Arts)
Britten – Brass Fanfare 1970 For St Edmundsbury
Britten – Winter Words
Britten – A Charm of Lullabies
Britten – folk songs
Britten – National Anthem