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Archive & Collections

The archive at the Red House is probably the richest composer’s archive in the world and is open to anyone to visit. It is a rich source of information on a wide variety of topics, held in various formats: music scores, working papers, books, artworks, correspondence, photographs, film and sound recordings and costumes. Britten’s and Pears’ papers are at the heart of it but it also holds material created by other members of their circle.


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Stories from the Archive

  1. Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman's War Requiem, 1989

    The Anti-War Art of War Requiem, Sixty Years On

    May 2022 marks the sixtieth anniversary of War Requiem, ‘Perhaps the most important work I have yet written’ as Britten described it in his…
  2. Archive Treasures: The Birth of a Music School

    This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (previously the Britten-Pears School for Advanced…
  3. Archive Treasures: Sentinels by the Reedbeds

    Today’s Archive Treasure lives not at the Red House but some miles away at Snape; rather than being tucked into an archive box, it is…

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