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Britten: Simple Symphony; Temporal Variations; A Charm of Lullabies; Lachrymae; Suite on English Folk Tunes.(Sound Recording Review)
Britten: Simple Symphony; Temporal Variations; A Charm of Lullabies; Lachrymae; Suite on English Folk Tunes. Steuart Bedford, Northern Sinfonia. Naxos 8.557205.
There probably isn't another conductor alive who knows the works of Benjamin Britten better than Steuart Bedford. A program note tells us that he was an occasional collaborator with the composer and conducted Britten's operas "throughout the world, including the world premiere of Death in Venice in 1973." I don't know if that qualifies Bedford's interpretations as the most definitive ones--Previn, Hickox, Handley, Marriner, Rattle, and the composer himself being no slouches with the scores--but they are certainly enjoyable.
I have to admit, though, that I liked the first and last of the five works on the disc best. They would be the youthful Simple Symphony (1934) and the far more mature but still enthusiastic Suite on English Folk ...
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Between her dozen or more performances with the Oregon Bach Festival and several others with the Shedd Institute and Eugene Concert Choir, Maria Jette has sung so many times in Eugene that she figures she's spent a year of her life hanging out here. Not that
