Benjamin Britten and Russia
By: Cameron Pyke
Series: Aldeburgh studies in music -- v. 11; Aldeburgh studies in music -- v. 11.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781783271139
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Travel; Criticism and interpretation
Description: Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-350), discography (pages 350-351), filmography (page 351), and index.
Table of contents: title: Earliest and lifelong Russophilia; title: Britten and Shostakovich, 1934-63; title: Britten and Prokofiev; title: Britten and Stravinsky; title: Hospitality and politics; title: Pushkin and performance; title: Britten and Shostakovich again : dialogues of war and death, 1963-76; title: Conclusion; title: Appendices. Letter from Lord Armstrong of Ilminster; title: Interview with Alan Brooke Turner; title: Interview with Keith Grant; title: Interview with Lord Harewood; title: Interview with Victor Hochhauser; title: Interview with Lilian Hochhauser; title: Letter from Sir Charles Mackerras; title: Interview with Donald Mitchell; title: Interview with Sir John Morgan; title: Interview with Gennady Rozhdestvensky; title: Interview with Irina Shostakovich; title: Letter from Boris Tishchenko; title: Interview with Oleg Vinogradov; title: Interview with Galina Vishnevskaya; title: Letters from Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova; title: Letter from Vladislav Chernushenko; title: Britten's volumes of Tchaikovsky's Complete works.