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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
Instrumentation. The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is scored for symphony orchestra: Woodwinds: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B flat and A and two bassoons. Brass: four horns in F, two trumpets in C, three trombones (two tenors and one bass) and bass tuba.
Britten in I938) is in the form of a dialogue between the various solo instruments of the orchestra (in order oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute, horn). One by one they hint at a tune, and the piano rather impertinently makes fun of them. Their mood passes from that of sorrow to indignation, and finally in a burst of wrath (the brass ff stating the
The best-known recording of the concerto is by the English Chamber Orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter as the soloist and Britten conducting, from a 1970 performance at the Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, near Britten's own home.
the standard instruments in the orchestra, it amounts to a series of portraits of the instruments in their totality. Thus we meet them in a number of widely differing contexts (orchestral, of course, but also solo and in sundry instrumental groupings) and we hear them transformed by a wide range of techniques.
Benjamin Britten was asked to compose music for a film that explained the instruments of the orchestra to children. Britten borrowed a tune by one of his favorite composers, Henry Purcell, to create his Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. This show uses Britten's Guide to introduce the instruments of the woodwind and string families.
This page lists all recordings of Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 21 by Benjamin Britten (1913–76).
