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Britten : essays, letters and opera guides

Title: Britten : essays, letters and opera guides / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle and A.M. Garnham, with Ines Schlenker and Kate Hopkins ; with drawings by Milein Cosman.
Author: Keller, Hans, 1919-1985.
Publication: London : Plumbago, 2013.

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Description

xx, 381 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Hans Keller archive

Uniform Title

Hans Keller archive.

Subject

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 > Criticism and interpretation

Note

Published in association with the Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. On and around the music (Hans Keller). Great English composer ; A film analysis of the orchestra (on The young person's guide) ; The second string quartet ; Peter Grimes at Covent Garden (review) ; The rape of Lucretia (reviews, 1946-50) ; The first Aldeburgh Festival ; Britten and the young (on Let's make an opera) ; Resistances to Britten's music: their psychology ; Night mail ; Britten's art of accompaniment ; Thematic relations (on the 'mad interlude' in Peter Grimes) ; The problem of taste in opera (on Albert Herring) ; The musical character (subsuming Britten and Mozart) ; Holland: music's new-found land (on The turn of the screw) ; The fishing Englishman in Holland (on Peter Grimes) ; Sinfonia da requiem (1) ; Sinfonia da requiem (2) (on 'Key, ostinato, row') ; Peter Grimes revived ; A midsummer night's dream ; The world around Britten (on Britten at 50) ; Billy Budd (on the two versions) ; Britten's new opera (on Curlew River) ; Stravinsky and Britten via Schoenberg (book review) ; Gloriana as music drama ; Children's crusade ; Why this piece is about Billy Budd ; Britten and Reger (on two radio transmissions) ; Death of a genius ; Sacred music in a secular age (on the War requiem) ; Operatic music and Britten ; The third string quartet ; The string quartets -- pt. 2. An operatic sketchbook (Milein Cosman). Britten and Cosman (Ines Schlenker) ; An operatic sketchbook (with a list of drawings) -- pt. 3. Britten and Keller: letters and life (A.M. Garnham) -- Appendices (Hans Keller). Peter Grimes: the story; the music not excluded (notes for a recording) ; The rape of Lucretia (Covent Garden opera guide) ; Albert Herring (Covent Garden opera guide) ; The beggar's opera (introductory essay).

Call Number

JME 13-782

ISBN

0956600751 (pbk.)
9780956600752 (pbk.)
0956600743 (Cloth)
9780956600745 (Cloth)

OCLC

856037081

Author

Keller, Hans, 1919-1985.

Title

Britten : essays, letters and opera guides / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle and A.M. Garnham, with Ines Schlenker and Kate Hopkins ; with drawings by Milein Cosman.

Imprint

London : Plumbago, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Hans Keller archive

Hans Keller archive.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.

Added Author

Wintle, Christopher.

Garnham, A. M. (Alison M.), 1964-

Schlenker, Ines.

Hopkins, Kate.

Cosman, Milein.

Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust.

Research Call Number

JME 13-782

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