Early Britten

A Benjamin Britten collection of early pieces. Young Apollo, Double Concerto in B minor, Two Portraits and Sinfonietta, with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Nikolai Lugansky and the Halle Orchestra with Kent Nagano. Many Russian performers seem to have found this connection with Britten from Rostropovich onwards. These pieces are quite austere and crystalline but played with an obvious affinity. Britten in an international as opposed to English mood.