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LevelItem

ReferencePH/5/371

Artist / Photographer

unidentified

Title

Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears performing in Moscow

Date8 March 1963

DescriptionPhotograph of Britten at piano and Pears singing in the Moscow Conservatoire at the Festival of British Music organised by Goskoncert of the USSR; the page-turner is not identified. The recital followed the performers' favoured sequence: a group of Purcell songs, a group of Schubert, a Britten song cycle (Hardy: Winter Words, in this case) ending with four British folk songs in Britten's arrangement.
Photographer: unidentified

Extent1 photograph

Physical DescriptionBlack and white; 16.5 x 23 cms

CopyrightOrphan work (photographer unidentified).

Copies1

Related MaterialProgramme for Britten-Pears recital in the Festival of British Music, 8 March 1963

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