22 Nov 1983
Music for Ben on his Seventieth Birthday presented by Britten-Pears Foundation.
Works performed: Britten: Three Divertimenti, Temporal Variations, Holiday Diary, A Sitwell Sequence, Unpublished Songs, String Quartet No. 3
Venue: The Wigmore Hall, London
Performers: Peter Pears (reader); Neil Mackie (tenor); Nicholas Daniel (oboe); Richard Watkins (horn); Iain Burnside, Julius Drake (pianos); The Brodsky String Quartet, Michael Thomas, Ian Belton (violins); Paul Cassidy (viola); Jacqueline Thomas (cello)
Further Information: The programme includes a statement from The Britten Estate, giving details of donations it is making totalling £10,000 to The United Nations Association, The Save the Children Fund and The Peace Pledge Union, 'in the spirit of peace and reconciliation of which the War Requiem is an embodiment'
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https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-SM-1983-36
