Benjamin Britten

New Perspectives on His Life and Work
Herausgeber: Walker, Lucy

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781843835165
• ISBN-10: 1843835169
• Artikelnr.: 26902809

Inhaltsangabe

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