| Description |
xvi, 182 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The outsider and the insider / Nicholas Kenyon -- -- Part one. Britten: the man -- Britten's biographers / Paul Kildea -- The Britten century / Philip Brett -- Fathers and godfathers / Michael Berkeley -- Working with Britten / Janet Baker -- Britten and the gang / Peter Parker -- Auden, Britten and Night mail / Blake Morrison -- Auden, Britten and The habit of art / Alan Bennett -- A haunting relationship: Janette Miller talks to Hannah Nepil -- -- Part two. Britten: the music -- Death in Venice : a personal narrative / Colin Matthews -- Peter Grimes : now gossip is put on trial / Nicholas Hammond -- Gloriana as music drama : a reaffirmation / Hans Keller -- Britten's last masterpiece / Hans Keller -- Conducting Britten : Edward Gardner talks to Nicholas Kenyon -- A Britten childhood / Ian Bostridge -- A dancer before God : Britten's five Canticles / Roger Vignoles -- "Almost miraculous" : Britten's music for orchestra / Guy Dammann -- Britten and the piano / Stephen Hough -- Britten and the race to the finish / John Bridcut -- Back to the future : the work of the Britten-Pears Foundation / Richard Jarman. |
| Subject |
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. |
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Composers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Kenyon, Nicholas, 1951- writer of added text.
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Bostridge, Mark, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781441177902 hardback |
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1441177906 hardback |
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