A Time There Was...
By Tony Palmer (7), and Benjamin Britten
Tracklist
- Prelude - Leonard Bernstein & Cousin Elsie
- Britten As Conductor & Pianist - Sviatoslav Richter, Childhood: Parents, Brothers & Sisters
- The Sea & Lowenstoft: Curlew Rivers, Peter Pears, Music As Moral Force & The Loss Of Innocence
- Early Compositions: Britten Speaks: Frank Bridge, Auden, The Royal College Of Music & Meeting Pears
- Music For Films - The Way To The Sea; Night Mail, Paul Rotha & Propaganda Films
- Journey To America - Beata Mayer, David Rothman - Dozen By The Salley Garden; Purcell Chaconne; Sinfonia Da Requiem
- Peter Grimes - Pears & Heather Harper, Now The Great Bear & Pleiades
- Aldeburgh: Miss Hudson & The Domestic Life, Britten & Composing: Imogen Holst & Rosamund Strode
- Phaedra - Janet Baker, Rape Of Lucretia - Kathleen Ferrier
- The Aldeburgh Festival - The Beginnings, Noye's Fludde
- "To Be Useful & To Be Living" - Writing To Commission, Nocturnal - Julian Bream
- The Sea: Billy Budd - Peter Glossop, John Shirley-Quirk, Hostile Criticism
- Travel - Bali, Gamelans & The Noh Plays, The Burning Fiery Furnace
- The Maltings Concert Hall, The Queen
- The Public Figure & The Love That Dared To Speak Its Name, Ben & Peter - The Nocturne
- Death In Venice
- An Excellent Patient, Rita Thompson & His Heart Operation, "Chills Already Dart Along My Boiling Heart" - Phaedra
- Last Visit To Venice - "Does Beauty Lead To Wisdom?"
- "What Will It Be Like - Death?" - A Time There Was
- "I Was Lost On An Infinite Sea..." - Billy Budd
- End Credits