This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten.
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written ...
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
... Introduction ' , in Crozier , Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes ' Mapreading : Benjamin Britten in conversation with Donald Mitchell ' , in Palmer , The Britten Companion On Receiving the First Aspen Award ( London : Faber and Faber ...
Documents the life of the famous British composer, focusing on his relationship with tenor Peter Pears, who became the inspirational center of his emotional and musical life.
Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go.
Benjamin Britten
This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten.
Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and...
This book is a source of first-hand information on Britten's final operatic achievement.
3 Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw ' : the music I The sketches : chronology and analysis JOHN EVANS Shortly after embarking on the composition sketch for the Coronation opera , Gloriana , in the autumn of 1952 , Britten ...
Crag House, which lies on the beachfront of Aldeburgh, was Britten's residence only for ten years between 1947 and 1957. The building in which Britten lived with his partner Peter Pears for over twenty years, the Red House, ...
Michael Wilcox's Outline takes a sidelong and challenging glance at Britten's operas from the theatrical point of a gay dramatist. Britten's output includes notable settings of poetry by Auden, Rimbaud,...
This book opens with Forster's original essay and his later one on Crabbe and Peter Grimes.