Title: The Britten companion /
Authors: Palmer, Christopher.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: 485 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: M
Contents: Perspectives. What do we know about Britten now? / Donald Mitchell -- Working for Benjamin Britten (I) / Imogen Holst -- Working for Benjamin Britten (II) / Rosmund Strode -- "Ben" : a tribute to Benjamin Britten / John Culshaw -- The ceremony of innocence / Christopher Palmer. Stage works. Mapreading / Benjamin Britten in conversation with Donald Mitchell -- Paul Bunyan : the American Eden / Wilfrid Mellers -- On playing Peter Grimes / Peter Pears -- Chaos and cosmos in Peter Grimes / Christopher Palmer -- The Rape of Lucretia / Christopher Headington -- Albert Herring / Erwin Stein -- Salvation at sea : Billy Budd / Philip Brett -- Turning the screw ; Through Noye's fludde / Wilfrid Mellers -- Entertaining the young : The little sweep / Imogen Holst -- Small victims : The golden vanity and Children's crusade ; Public and private in Gloriana / Donald Mitchell -- The composer's dream / Benjamin Britten -- The truth of the dream / Wilfrid Mellers -- Catching on to the technique in Pagoda-land ; The church parables (I) : ritual and restraint / Donald Mitchell -- The church parables (II) : limits and renewals / Robin Holloway -- Owen Wingrave : a case for pacifism / John Evans -- Death in Venice : the dark side of perfection / Donald Mitchell -- Towards a geneology of Death in Venice / Christopher Palmer. Voices. Composer and poet / Peter Porter -- Voice and piano / Graham Johnson -- Embalmer of the midnight : the orchestral song-cycles / Christopher Palmer -- The choral music / Anthony Milner -- The beggar's opera / Hans Keller -- The Purcell realizations / Eric Roseberry. Instruments. The chamber music : an introduction / Donald Mitchell -- The solo chamber music / Eric Roseberry -- The string quartets and some other chamber works / David Matthews -- The orchestral works : Brittan as instrumentalist / Christopher Palmer -- The concertos / John Evans.
Notes: Includes indexes.