Britten’s music has always felt very personal to us for reasons difficult to explain. His music has the ability to transport us to an otherworldly and spiritual place, safe from the trepidations of war, political turmoil, and injustice. (Britten himself was a pacifist and a conscientious objector.) At the same time, his music also channels the most raw and unfiltered of human emotion, and it allows us to express feelings of fear, loneliness, nostalgia, or sorrow in the most vulnerable but cathartic of ways.