4 Works in Imogen Holst
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Queen Hilda by Naraht
Hilda Tablet and Others - Henry Reed, Classical Music RPF, 20th Century CE RPF
28 Sep 2010
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It's time for Hilda's next project, "Mapp and Lucia: the opera." Or should that be "Lucia and Mapp"?
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- Part 2 of Dame Hilda and her circle
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Buck up, it's Baroque by Naraht
Classical Music RPF, Hilda Tablet and Others - Henry Reed, 20th Century CE RPF
13 Sep 2010
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Roll over, Beethoven and move over, Benjamin Britten… it's Hilda Tablet, the "eminent twelve-tone composeress." When Hilda and her muse, soprano Elsa Strauss, are special guests at the Aldeburgh Festival, they leave havoc, romantic entanglements and modern music in their wake.
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- Part 1 of Dame Hilda and her circle
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Miles, his curtain call by Naraht
Turn of the Screw - Henry James, Turn of the Screw - Britten/Piper, Classical Music RPF
6 Jul 2010
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"I will tell you. Everything. I will tell you. But... not now."
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On the eve of World War I, Benjamin Britten is a new boy at boarding school. He is assigned to fag for Peter Pears, a prefect and a tenor in the school choir. A friendship develops between the two of them, but are Britten's feelings more than simple hero-worship?
Amidst the patriotic fervour of wartime, Britten has to stand by Pears when the older boy's pacifist convictions make him unpopular with the rest of the school. After Pears leaves school they lose touch until, at the end of the war, a tragedy brings them back together...