With a month to go until the centenary of Britten's birth the long haul of anniversary events is nearing its climax, while the Southbank Centre's year-long festival of 20th-century music, entitled The Rest is Noise, continues to make its steady chronological progress and is just arriving at the 1950s and 60s. Over two weeks the Southbank Centre has been focusing on Britten with talks and films, as well as music. Every detail was precisely chiselled out in Britten's moonlit accompaniments and Padmore responded with singing that illuminated the poetry with just the same kind of sensitive detail, though vocally he sometimes sounds a bit hard-pressed these days. The soloist in the Cello Symphony was the deeply pensive Truls Mork, a long-standing champion of Britten's works for cello. How fortunate he was here to have Jurowski holding back the orchestra so that the cello could be heard and getting electricity to course through every hushed phrase.
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