The Utrecht Blazersensemble conducted by Jussi Jaatinen at the Utrecht Centrum voor de kunsten en Dutch Chamber music from the Sweelinckzaal at the Amsterdam Conservatorium.

Episode 25 of our series about Benjamin Britten and Contemporaries. A “churchparable”, that’s what the British called his champer opera Curlew River, in which he incorporated elements of the Japanese Noh theatre. As a contemporary someone who, like Britten, was inspired by music from other cultures, the American Henry Cowell.