Britten: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice-Accompanist | Graham Johnson

Graham Johnson pays a personal tribute to Benjamin Britten on what would have been his 110th birthday, offering a fascinating overview of the composer’s life and work. Johnson, who arrived from Africa in London in 1967 as a student of piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, barely knew Britten’s work at the time. All that changed over many decades; he offers grateful and loving memories of a composer he got to study and later know personally. Johnson has performed, written about, and lived with Britten’s music ever since. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is 100 minutes of erudite reaction to Britten’ s magnificent body of work.