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Knowing Britten is a vivid and insightful account of Steuart
Bedford's long association with both Britten the man and his music
The conductor and pianist Steuart Bedford (199-2021) could not
remember a time when he did not know Benjamin Britten. His mother,
Lesley Duff, sang with the English Opera Group in the premieres of
The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herrring in the late 1940s, and the
family was closely involved with Britten and Pears for many years.
Following his music studies and time on the music staff at
Glyndebourne, Bedford joined the English Opera Group, gradually
becoming Britten's trusted surrogate conductor. As Britten's health
began to fail, Before took on responsibility for the premiere of
Death in Venice, including its US premiere at the Metropolitan
Opera, New York, and the dramatic cantata Phaedra among others.
Steuart Bedford conducts the Britten-Pears Orchestra in this
production of Benjamin Britten's opera, recorded on the beach at
the Aldeburgh Festival. The performance stars Alan Oke as the
eponymous character with Giselle Allan as Ellen Orford and David
Kempster as Captain Balstrode.
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