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Benjamin Britten 50p rare worth 500£ online offers rare 50p.Posted by Logan in other goods, hobbies, interests & collectibles in Newcastle. 20 December 2020. A few days ago I received a Benjamin Britten 50p coin in my change. My dad told me to keep hold of it as they are rare and fetch quite a bit of money.

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*** rare 50p *** Benjamin Britten 2013 it is the first UK coin to show the date (2013) and denomination (fifty pence) on the same side of the coin the obverse ...

Fourteen Collectible 50p Coins.

Fourteen Collectible 50pence Coins in excellent condition. £5 each plus postage. 1) Collectible 50p coin celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Samuel Johnson's...

Benjamin Britten 50p coin

Benjamin Britten 50p coin, in good condition. To add to your collection!

50p pieces, Beatrix Potter, Benjamin bunny, Peter rabbit, Benjamin Britten and offside rule

50p pieces, Beatrix Potter, Benjamin bunny, Peter rabbit, Benjamin Britten and offside rule collectable.

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2011 - olympics women's weight lifting 50p 2007- 'be prepared' 50p 2014- commonwealth games 50p 2018- Benjamin bunny 50p 2019- Sherlock Holmes 50p 2017-...

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Here I have for sale is my full collection of coins, there is to many to list bit I have tried to list most of them, I have a large collection of £2 coins & 50p...

Benjamin Britten 50p Coin Dated 2013.

Issued by the Royal Mint to mark the centenary of the birth of one of Britain s most iconic composers. It was designed by Tom Phillips; the design features...

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2013 Benjamin Britten 50p coin in good condition also have other 50p coins for sale

Rare collectors limited edition 50p coins. Individually priced.

Rare collectors 50p coins. They are all individually priced and I have the following for sale below: Public libraries act 2000 £1.50 Women's social & political...

Noye's Fludde - Benjamin Britten

Oxfam Bookshop Thame 1st edition, 1958 of this iconic score. Good condition for age, with some darkening on cover and spine. All firmly intact. Slight tear down...

Benjamin Britten: a Catalogue Of the Published Works

Oxfam Bookshop Lower Petergate A very good copy of the authoritative catalogue of the published works, containing the most comprehensive and up to date...

My beloved man: the letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter pears

Oxfam Shop Magdelen Street 'To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants.' From the Foreword by Fiona Shaw. This...

Benjamin Bunny 2017 50p

Benjamin Bunny 50p 2017, circulated but very shiny and bright. £5 cash on collection.

Rare Benjamin Britain 50p

Rare 2013 Benjimin Britain 50p issued to commemorate birth of composer. Circulated but in good condition. Offers

50p Benjamin bunny 2017

Hi I am selling Benjamin bunny 2017 50p coin. I am asking £200 for it or Ono this coin was issued to celebrate one of Beatrix Potters most loved children tales....

Benjamin bunny 50p coin

Benjamin bunny 50p coin also have other coins for sale can post at extra cost collected £1

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Benjamin Bunny 50p coin

2017, part of the Beatrix Potter range. Circulated coin. Free collection or can post for additional £1.00 postage.

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Benjamin bunny 50p coin Benjamin bunny 50p. Posted by rose in other goods, hobbies, interests & collectibles in Aberdeen. 20 January 2021

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50p coin Benjamin bunny 2017.

50p coin Benjamin bunny 2017... Only collection from Acton high street London W3 ... Thank you for looking..... Sorry no offers.... Only collection... Pick up..

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2017 Benjamin Bunny 50p coin. Circulated but in very good clean condition. £2. Cash on collection.

Benjamin bunny collectible 50p coin

Benjamin bunny collectible 50p coin. Comes in protective case. In excellent condition. £5.

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Outstanding composer, virtuoso pianist, talented conductor, inspired recording artist, major music festival organiser, peerless arranger of folksongs – there was seemingly nothing he didn’t excel at. Yet not everyone was equally impressed by Benjamin Britten.

Britten was one of the most outstanding English musicians of the 20th century. In addition to his prodigious achievements as a composer, he was a stunningly gifted pianist, accompanist, conductor and arranger.

He was also a natural recording artist, as is testified by definitive accounts of his own music for Decca, as well as landmark recordings of masterpieces by Bach, Purcell, Mozart and Schumann. Yet despite his extraordinary fluency and emotional directness, Britten’s music was considered “difficult” in parochial circles, even by those prepared to go along with some of the thornier masterpieces of Vaughan Williams and Walton.

Britten was also happiest when writing choral music, songs and operas at a time when English musical opinion was polarised by an all-consuming passion for such “elevated” instrumental forms as the symphony, string quartet and piano sonata.

If Britten’s unconventional concentration on vocal music did little to endear him to the establishment, his lifelong companionship with the great English tenor, Peter Pears, encapsulated his homosexual leanings at a time when such things were best not talked about.

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Always highly sensitive to criticism, Britten effectively cut himself off from the musical mainstream by setting up shop at Aldeburgh, near the Suffolk coast. Here he enjoyed the company of a small but distinguished circle of friends, which unfortunately had the effect once again of making even those who were essentially sympathetic to his music feel like outsiders.

Born into a reasonably prosperous Lowestoft family, by the age of 14 Britten was already advanced enough to merit lessons with Frank Bridge, who was to remain the single most profound creative influence on the budding young composer.

“In everything he did for me,” Britten fondly recollected, “there were perhaps above all two cardinal principles. One was that you should try to find yourself and be true to what you found. The other was his scrupulous attention to good technique, the business of saying clearly what was in one’s mind.”

Following a successful scholarship interview at the Royal College of Music – after which one of the examiners privately exclaimed: “What is an English public schoolboy doing writing music of this kind?” – Britten’s studies with the traditionalist John Ireland were less than happy.

However, the young genius continued to pour forth blindingly original music, including a series of piano pieces that would later form the basis for his popular Simple Symphony (1933-4).

During his years at the RCM, Britten became absorbed in contemporary music, and even suggested that the College might like to place a copy of the score of Schoenberg’s radical Pierrot Lunaire in the library – they refused. Britten even won a scholarship to study with Schoenberg’s disciple Alban Berg in Vienna, although his mother was against the idea.

Nevertheless, Britten continued to progress at a phenomenal rate. Upon leaving the College he was invited to compose the incidental music for a series of documentaries, climaxing in the memorable Coal Face and Night Mail.

It was through these that he first met the celebrated writer WH Auden, with whom he would soon collaborate on his first opera, Paul Bunyan. He was also signed up by the publishers Boosey & Hawkes, and at the age of 24 composed his astonishingly assured Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, a blistering masterpiece that announced the arrival of a major new force in British music.

An instinctive pacifist, Britten spent the early part of World War II in America, where his friendship with Pears blossomed. His most outstanding work of this period was the Sinfonia Da Requiem, a stunning indictment of man’s inhumanity to man.

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Turning the coin over, during the return journey to England in 1942 Britten composed the glorious Hymn To St Cecilia and Ceremony Of Carols. The latter is one of his most innocent and uncomplicated scores, remarkable for a man living under the threat of a U-boat attack.

Britten recorded the Ceremony Of Carols the following year and sales surpassed all expectations. This established him as a serious recording artist. Meanwhile, Britten was exempted from military service as a conscientious objector.

Whatever his achievements during his American sojourn, the most important event, which was to prove central to the remainder of Britten’s creative life, was the conductor Serge Koussevitzky’s suggestion that he compose a full-scale opera.

The eventual result was a barnstorming, post-Romantic masterpiece: Peter Grimes – a work of such astonishing maturity and power that it is easy to overlook the fact that Britten was only 31. The parallels between the central figure, a rough-and-ready Suffolk fisherman vilified by an uncomprehending society when his apprentice is lost at sea, and Britten’s view of his own artistic station in life are hard to ignore.

Two contrasted chamber operas of a very different hue followed Grimes in quick succession – The Rape Of Lucretia and Albert Herring – in the wake of which Britten set up the English Opera Group in 1947 and founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival the following year.

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Aldeburgh was to become Britten’s spiritual home, and much of the music he subsequently composed was specifically written to be performed there by friends and colleagues under his direction and/or accompaniment.

Fired by the success of Peter Grimes, Britten was now at the height of his powers. Two choral classics, composed virtually back to back, won considerable popularity – St Nicholas (1948) and the Spring Symphony (1949) – and during the early 1950s Britten went into creative overdrive with what are arguably his two greatest masterpieces, both of them operas – Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn Of The Screw (1954).

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The latter is a chilling adaptation of the Henry James ghost story. Using only a chamber group and setting the opera against the background of an awesomely inventive set of variations – you can feel the atmosphere tightening with each “turn of the screw” – this claustrophobically intimidating work never lets go.

The moment the boy Miles cries out, “Peter Quint, you Devil”, releasing him from the maliciously ghoulish attentions of his “possessor”, is one of music’s great heart-stoppers.

Britten’s next major opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), signalled a return to the richness and emotional directness of his pre-Grimes music, reaching a climax in the War Requiem of 1962.

This is based partly on the traditional Requiem Mass, and partly on the poems of Wilfred Owen. The premiere in Sir Basil Spence’s newly restored Coventry cathedral on 30 May 1962, was accorded what was then the rare honour of a “live” outside broadcast by the BBC, and Britten’s classic recording sold a staggering 200,000 copies in six months.

Following the War Requiem, Britten moved progressively towards more intimate forms of expression, which showed an often disturbing predilection for the dark side of human nature, including the three church parables – Curlew River (1964), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966) and The Prodigal Son (1968).

His final operatic utterance was the unbearably poignant Death In Venice (1973), while his last completed work, Phaedre, premiered only six months before his death in December 1976, takes us over into the abyss and beyond.

Whatever his musical achievements, Britten above all wanted to feel useful, to be a vital part of everyday society.

This bubbles over in a 1964 newspaper article, which reads like his musical epitaph: “The ideal conditions for an artist or musician will never be found outside the ideal society, and when shall we see that? But I think I can tell you some of the things that any artist demands from any society. He demands that his art shall be accepted as an essential part of human activity and human expression; and that he shall be accepted as a genuine practitioner of that art and consequently of value to the community.”