Archives for July 20, 2011

Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Schubert’s “Mein,” from Die schöne Müllerin:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“I think greatness happens accidentally–that sometimes one can write a little tiny piece for children or for brass band or something like that, and it may quite easily turn out to be much more important for posterity–if one can worry about posterity–than anyone’s symphonies in B flat minor. I think Schoenberg himself said that you can’t save the world with every Adagio.”
Benjamin Britten (interview, CBC, Nov. 21, 1961)