Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs. Auden – City of London Sinfonia at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

‘I’ve seen & am seeing Auden a lot, & our immediate future is locked with his, it seems.’  So wrote Benjamin Britten to his sister, Barbara, on 3 September 1939.[1]…

Origin: This is CLS

In 1971, the year in which he made his professional debut as a conductor, the late Richard Hickox founded the Richard Hickox Orchestra and the Richard Hickox Chorus, and commissioned…