Benjamin Britten
New Perspectives on His Life and Work
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2009
216 pages
978-1-84615-694-6 (ISBN)
Description
An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.
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Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Content
Introduction - Lucy Walker
Going Behind Britten's Back - Colin Matthews
Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poemes Nos 4 and 5 (1927) - Sharon Choa
Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem? -
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten - George Caird
Britten and the Cinematic Frame - David Crilly
Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - Jane Brandon
Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave - Frances Spalding
'The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone': Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave - Arne Muus
Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice -
From the Borough to Fraser Island - Claire Seymour
Britten and France; or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe - Maena Py
Why did Britten Return to Wartime England? - Brian McMahon
Going Behind Britten's Back - Colin Matthews
Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poemes Nos 4 and 5 (1927) - Sharon Choa
Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem? -
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten - George Caird
Britten and the Cinematic Frame - David Crilly
Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - Jane Brandon
Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave - Frances Spalding
'The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone': Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave - Arne Muus
Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice -
From the Borough to Fraser Island - Claire Seymour
Britten and France; or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe - Maena Py
Why did Britten Return to Wartime England? - Brian McMahon
