Secret agent, prisoner, playwright and poet. Clearly there was never a dull moment in the life of this 17th century International Woman of Mystery.

Benjamin Britten’s (1913-1976) extraordinary piece The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra has been a favourite of education schemes and family orchestral concerts for years. Britten pinched one of Henry Purcell’s (1659-1695) themes and used it to explore the sections of the huge modern symphony orchestra in an imaginative series of variations.

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The English Concert Returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse A …

Visiting the great cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Wuhan and …

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of England’s grea …