Britten: Suites for Solo Cello Duncan Ferguson John Kitchen stylishly punctuates the

John Kitchen stylishly punctuates the vocal music with organ works by Scheidt

the Astrid Quartet and others

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New director Ben Parry was quick to notice they share their birthday in 2013 with Britten’s centenary

Britten: Suites for Solo Cello Duncan Ferguson John Kitchen stylishly punctuates theSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Brittens meeting with Mstislav Rostropovich in 1960 was a watershed, the great Russian cellist becoming the primary collaborator of his later years and inspiring a whole series of masterworks. Among them are these three suites for solo cello, written as a conscious homage to those of Bach (there were originally to have been six). Britten scholar Paul Kildea, author of the lucid and perceptive booklet essay, sees the