Introduction Mervyn Cooke
Part I. Apprenticeship: 1. Juvenilia (1922-1932) Christopher Mark
2. Britten, Auden and 'Otherness' Paul Kildea
3. Britten in the cinema: 'Coal Face' Philip Reed
Part II. The Operas: 4. 'He Descended into Hell': Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford and Salvation Denied Stephen Arthur Allen
5. The chamber operas Arnold Whittall
6. 'Gloriana': Britten's 'Slighted Child' Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin
7. Britten and Shakespeare: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Mervyn Cooke
8. Eros in life and death: 'Billy Budd' and 'Death in Venice' Clifford Hindley
Part III. Perspectives: 9. Distant horizons : from Pagodaland to the Church Parables Mervyn Cooke
10. Violent climates Donald Mitchell
11. Britten as symphonist Arved Ashby
12. The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic Eric Roseberry
13. The chamber music Philip Rupprecht
14. Music for voices Ralph Woodward
Part IV. The Composer in the Community: 15. Britten and the world of the child Stephen Arthur Allen
16. Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger Eric Roseberry
17. Aldeburgh Judith LeGrove.
