We're delighted to see two of our works on show in "John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey" at Pallant House Gallery: "Shepherd and Rocks" and "Two Dancers". Do get there to see them if you can! pallant.org.uk/whats-on/john-… Images © Pallant House Gallery/Barney Hindle

A little over a century ago, Musical America interviews Frank Bridge on his first visit to the USA. There's a lot here that he would have said to Britten, who entered his orbit about this time: say what you have simply, art is international, etc. musicalamerica.com/pages/index.cf…

Still pretty breezy up here but the worst of the storm's blown itself out, and The Red House, Aldeburgh and The Britten Pears Archive are looking good in the winter sunshine.

Nice example of how the The Britten Pears Archive collection is wider than you'd expect: just hosted a researcher looking into the building of the Sizewell nuclear power plant. Snape Maltings hosted the Sizewell B enquiry and we have papers relating to that, including this CPRE The countryside charity leaflet.

'And I shall love you every moment' Peter Pears to Benjamin Britten, 1943.

This Valentine's Day 💞 discover the love story of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. In our latest blog Dr. Christopher Hilton (Christopher Hilton) explores how art became the language of the couple's publicly unspoken bond. pallant.org.uk/perspectives-w…

#OTD in 1939 Auden and Isherwood's verse play "The Ascent of F6" opens: music is provided by the young Benjamin Britten and the scores and sketches are held in the The Britten Pears Archive archive.

Judith and Nick from the The Britten Pears Archive team are at Goldsmiths University of London for the Queer History Fair today - come and have a chat about the research resources we can offer! Goldsmiths Centre for Queer History

The Britten Pears Archive recently had the pleasure of helping Swiss Radio & TV with a programme on the Red House, in their French language "L'Orielle d'Abord" series: you can listen to it as a podcast here rts.ch/audio-podcast/….

New open season at The Red House, Aldeburgh and we're a short time away from the first The Britten Pears Archive Stories from the Archive session of 2024. Today's story features Britten, Dr. Beeching, King Lear and a mystery guest...

An anniversary I just missed: 80 years (and 2 days) ago, Britten and Pears performing at Mitcham County School for Girls, with music by Handel, Purcell, Schubert, Britten's mentor Frank Bridge, and Britten himself. The style of the programme reflects wartime paper-saving.

Born #OTD 100 years ago, Sir Neville Marriner, who made several fine recordings of Britten, is seen here during the 1988 Aldeburgh Festival rehearsing Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 3 with the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Photo: Nigel Luckhurst

A new resource available just in time for the Aldeburgh Festival: all of the past programme books, back to the first Festival in 1948, are now digitised and can be viewed and downloaded at brittenpearsarts.org/news/aldeburgh…. #AldeburghFestival

Happy birthday to David Hockney, born #OnThisDay 1937! One of the favourite artworks in the The Britten Pears Archive collection is his drawing of Peter Pears, done for Pears' 70th birthday: you can read about it, and see the drawing, here. brittenpearsarts.org/news/70th-birt…

Today's Stories from the Archive at The Britten Pears Archive: Britten, Pears and Indian music, and how sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan came to Aldeburgh for the 1958 Festival. The second running of the talk took us over the 500 listeners mark for this season.... 1/2

We celebrate the life and work of Benjamin Luxon, the first Owen Wingrave on TV & LP recording, who died a week ago. A magnificent interpreter of Britten’s music.

A summery morning at The Red House, Aldeburgh - as a nod to that, today's guided tours will get a concluding Story from the Archive set in the hot summer of 1976...

Stories from the Archive at The Britten Pears Archive today takes us to the hot summer of 1976, the Aldeburgh Festival that year and the announcement of Britten's peerage. This morning's talk took us over 600 visitors this season: thanks to everyone who's come so far!

Judith from the Archive team has been cataloguing the papers of the English Opera Group: in this article for the Archives Hub she tells us about the new resources this makes available for researchers. blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/category/featu…

Timed to perfection: Imogen Holst's house in Aldeburgh, owned by Britten Pears Arts, is open this weekend for Heritage Open Days, so you can go to the house and soak up the atmosphere then listen to some of her works...