Bernstein on Britten
January 10, 2009
On this Sunday’s edition of New Classics on WDAV, a new CD of music for piano and orchestra by Benjamin Britten is sampled. Britten wrote relatively few works that spotlight the piano. He once remarked that he regarded the piano basically as a “background instrument”. In this interview, Leonard Bernstein gives a brief take on the complexities of Benjamin Britten.