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THE BRITTEN COLLECTION
BOYDELL& BREWER
NEW
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME FIVE: 1958–1965
Edited by PHILIP REED & MERVYN COOKE
This volume covers the two major operaticworks A Midsummer Night’s Dream and theground-breaking Curlew River, and hispacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. It also charts Britten and Pears’s visits toMoscow, Leningrad and Armenia in detail.Correspondents include Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, YehudiMenuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, DmitriShostakovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, aswell as Peter Pears. $80.00/£45.00 OCtOBER 2010978 1 84383 591 255 B/w illus.; 830pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME FOUR: 1952–1957
Edited by PHILIP REED, MERVYN COOKE & DONALD MITCHELL
Volume Four covers the Coronation opera Gloriana, the chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, and the full-lengthballet The Prince of the Pagodas.Correspondents include librettists William Plomer (Gloriana) and MyfanwyPiper (The Turn of the Screw), and friends and collaborators such as Imogen Holst,Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, the Earl of Harewood and Peter Pears.$80.00/£45.00 may 2008978 1 84383 382 657 B/w illus.; 676pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
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LETTERSFROM A LIFE
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Volume Six 1966–1976
Edited by Philip Reed& Mervyn Cooke
The splendid and extensive editorial annotations ... are such asignificant feature of these volumes ... the reading experience isconsistently both enthralling and entertaining. BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY
LETTERS FROM A LIFE is more than just an edition ofletters; it is a vast Britten compendium ... there can be noquestion that it is vastly more successful as biography than thestraight ... works on Britten have been. YALE REVIEW
One of the most illuminating biographical projectsin recent years. PETER ACKROYD
Britten in PicturesEdited by LUCY WALKER
Britten in Pictures celebrates the many facets of Britten’s life in a major new photographic treatment timed to coincide with the composer’scentenary in 2013. Using the wealth of images housed in the collections of The Britten–Pears Foundation at Aldeburgh, the book charts the curveof Britten’s life, using a selection of rare and previously unpublished imagesto reveal him anew in all phases of his career, catching a multitude ofinformal glimpses of the man ‘behind the scenes’ at work and play as wellas in more familiar formal settings. The result is a new and often surprisingportrait of this major musical genius. $34.95/£19.99 sEptEmBER 2012978 1 84383 749 780 COlOuR & 320 B/w illus.; 288pp, 22 x 22, pBBOydEll pREss
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF BRITTENaRE puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn withthE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn. puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn with thE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn.
NEW T I T L E SN EW T I T L E S
LETTERSFROM A LIFE
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Volume Five 1958–1965
Edited by Philip Reed& Mervyn Cooke
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME SIX: 1966–1976
Edited by PHILIP REED & MERVYN COOKE
The sixth and final volume of correspondencecovers the composer’s last decade. The genesis,composition and premieres of major stageworks such as Owen Wingrave, commissionedby BBC Television, and Death in Venice arefully documented, as are the church parables,The Burning Fiery Furnace and The ProdigalSon. Important concert works from this periodinclude the powerful Brecht setting, Children’sCrusade, Canticles IV and V (both settings ofpoetry by T. S. Eliot), Phaedra (for Janet Baker)and the Third String Quartet, with its hauntingechoes of Death in Venice. The volume alsotraces the conversion of Snape Maltings intothe Aldeburgh Festival’s principal concertvenue and significant correspondents includethe Queen and Queen Mother, William Plomer,Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and MstislavRostropovich, Dmitri Shostakovich andWilliam Walton.$80.00/£45.00 nOVEmBER 2012978 1 84383 725 150 B/w illus.; 832pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
NEW
COVER: BEnjamin BRittEn COnduCting ORChEstRa with BatOn at a REhEaRsal in thE maltings, snapE, suffOlk, junE 1967. BRian sEEd / lEBRECht musiC & aRts.
NEW
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME FIVE: 1958–1965
Edited by PHILIP REED & MERVYN COOKE
This volume covers the two major operaticworks A Midsummer Night’s Dream and theground-breaking Curlew River, and hispacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. It also charts Britten and Pears’s visits toMoscow, Leningrad and Armenia in detail.Correspondents include Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, YehudiMenuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, DmitriShostakovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, aswell as Peter Pears. $80.00/£45.00 OCtOBER 2010978 1 84383 591 255 B/w illus.; 830pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME FOUR: 1952–1957
Edited by PHILIP REED, MERVYN COOKE & DONALD MITCHELL
Volume Four covers the Coronation opera Gloriana, the chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, and the full-lengthballet The Prince of the Pagodas.Correspondents include librettists William Plomer (Gloriana) and MyfanwyPiper (The Turn of the Screw), and friends and collaborators such as Imogen Holst,Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, the Earl of Harewood and Peter Pears.$80.00/£45.00 may 2008978 1 84383 382 657 B/w illus.; 676pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
Reed has
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He is also editoro
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LETTERSFROM A LIFE
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Volume Six 1966–1976
Edited by Philip Reed& Mervyn Cooke
The splendid and extensive editorial annotations ... are such asignificant feature of these volumes ... the reading experience isconsistently both enthralling and entertaining. BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY
LETTERS FROM A LIFE is more than just an edition ofletters; it is a vast Britten compendium ... there can be noquestion that it is vastly more successful as biography than thestraight ... works on Britten have been. YALE REVIEW
One of the most illuminating biographical projectsin recent years. PETER ACKROYD
Britten in PicturesEdited by LUCY WALKER
Britten in Pictures celebrates the many facets of Britten’s life in a major new photographic treatment timed to coincide with the composer’scentenary in 2013. Using the wealth of images housed in the collections of The Britten–Pears Foundation at Aldeburgh, the book charts the curveof Britten’s life, using a selection of rare and previously unpublished imagesto reveal him anew in all phases of his career, catching a multitude ofinformal glimpses of the man ‘behind the scenes’ at work and play as wellas in more familiar formal settings. The result is a new and often surprisingportrait of this major musical genius. $34.95/£19.99 sEptEmBER 2012978 1 84383 749 780 COlOuR & 320 B/w illus.; 288pp, 22 x 22, pBBOydEll pREss
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF BRITTENaRE puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn withthE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn. puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn with thE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn.
NEW T I T L E SN EW T I T L E S
LETTERSFROM A LIFE
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Volume Five 1958–1965
Edited by Philip Reed& Mervyn Cooke
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976VOLUME SIX: 1966–1976
Edited by PHILIP REED & MERVYN COOKE
The sixth and final volume of correspondencecovers the composer’s last decade. The genesis,composition and premieres of major stageworks such as Owen Wingrave, commissionedby BBC Television, and Death in Venice arefully documented, as are the church parables,The Burning Fiery Furnace and The ProdigalSon. Important concert works from this periodinclude the powerful Brecht setting, Children’sCrusade, Canticles IV and V (both settings ofpoetry by T. S. Eliot), Phaedra (for Janet Baker)and the Third String Quartet, with its hauntingechoes of Death in Venice. The volume alsotraces the conversion of Snape Maltings intothe Aldeburgh Festival’s principal concertvenue and significant correspondents includethe Queen and Queen Mother, William Plomer,Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and MstislavRostropovich, Dmitri Shostakovich andWilliam Walton.$80.00/£45.00 nOVEmBER 2012978 1 84383 725 150 B/w illus.; 832pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBsElECtEd lEttERs Of BRittEn l BOydEll pREss
NEW
COVER: BEnjamin BRittEn COnduCting ORChEstRa with BatOn at a REhEaRsal in thE maltings, snapE, suffOlk, junE 1967. BRian sEEd / lEBRECht musiC & aRts.
NEW
NEW
BEnjamin BRittEn with maRgaREt RitChiE and anna pOllaCk at glyndEBOuRnE, junE – july 1946. COuRtEsy Of thE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn.
Making MusiciansA Personal History of the Britten–Pears SchoolMOIRA BENNETT
Moira Bennett worked at the Britten–PearsSchool in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. Shecharts its forty-year history, embodying itsfounders’ initial vision of a bridge betweenconservatory and career for gifted youngmusicians. Some of the most eminentteachers from Europe, the United States andbeyond have come to teach at Snape. These
include founder-director Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, GalinaVishnevskaya, Jacqueline du Pré, MitsukoUchida, Mstislav Rostropovich, TonKoopman, and members of the AmadeusQuartet. This authoritative and anecdotalhistorical survey of the work of the School isgenerously illustrated and studded withquotations from many faculty members andformer students.$24.95/£14.99 may 2012978 0 95716 720 9120 B/w illus.; 224pp, 17 x 24, pBBittERn pREss
Imogen Holst: A Life in MusicR E V I S E D E D I T I O N
Edited by CHRISTOPHER GROGAN
Imogen Holst was one of the most wide-ranging and highly regarded ofmusicians and worked as BenjaminBritten’s assistant and artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival for decades.She was popular with all who knew her,but was intensively protective of herinner life, reminding one friend of a‘locked door of which she had thrownaway the key’.
An encounter with a true original ... Grogan has put together an excellentcritical biography. TLS
$34.95/£19.99 OCtOBER 2010978 1 84383 599 82 COlOuR & 52 B/w illus.; 522pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC lBOydEll pREss
New Aldeburgh AnthologyCompiled by ARIANE BANKES & JONATHAN REEKIE
Britten and Pears’ Aldeburgh Festivallies at the heart of the The NewAldeburgh Anthology. Their legacy is re-examined by musicians such as IanBostridge, Steven Isserlis and RogerVignoles. Poets such as Andrew Motion,Blake Morrison, Kevin Crossley-Hollandand Lavinia Greenlaw have all beeninspired by Aldeburgh’s bright yethaunting atmosphere. George EwartEvans, W.G. Sebald and Richard Mabeyare among those who respond to thepower of the landscape, others to thespell of the sea.
The long-term survival and eventualrejuvenation of Aldeburgh as a musicalnerve centre post-Britten has ... been atriumph of creativity over adversity andthis anthology gradually and magicallytells exactly how and why.GRAMOPHONE
aVailaBlE in:pB: $24.95/£14.99, 978 1 84383 588 2, apRil 2010hB: $60.00/£35.00, 978 1 84383 439 7, apRil 200920 COlOuR & 32 B/w illus.; 376pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBBOydEll pREss
O F R E L A T E DI N T E R E S T
puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn withaldEBuRgh musiC
NEW T I T L E S
Britten: ‘The Musical Character’and Other WritingsHANS KELLEREdited by CHRISTOPHER WINTLE
It was hearing an early performance ofBenjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes that turned theyoung emigré writer and musician Hans Kellerfrom psychology to music. Thereafter hebecame the composer’s most fervent advocate,devoting to him a whole issue of ‘Music Survey’(the journal he edited with Donald Mitchell)and the first comprehensive book on his music(again edited with Mitchell). This new volumeis a selection of the best of his writings; it also includes a study of the extensivecorrespondence between Britten and Keller(most of it hitherto unknown), a reprint of the handbooks on The Rape of Lucretia andAlbert Herring (long out-of-print). Illustratedwith drawings by Milein Cosman.aVailaBlE in: pB: $29.95/£17.99, 978 0 95660 075 2, apRil 2013hB: $70.00/£40.00, 978 0 95660 074 5, apRil 2013 24 x 16.5hans kEllER aRChiVE l plumBagO BOOks
Visit aldeburgh for a
programme of events
celebrating the Centenary of
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976),
and experience the true spirit
of one of the greatest musical
minds the uk has produced.
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
NEW
NEW
BEnjamin BRittEn with maRgaREt RitChiE and anna pOllaCk at glyndEBOuRnE, junE – july 1946. COuRtEsy Of thE BRittEn–pEaRs fOundatiOn.
Making MusiciansA Personal History of the Britten–Pears SchoolMOIRA BENNETT
Moira Bennett worked at the Britten–PearsSchool in its hectic heyday in the 1980s. Shecharts its forty-year history, embodying itsfounders’ initial vision of a bridge betweenconservatory and career for gifted youngmusicians. Some of the most eminentteachers from Europe, the United States andbeyond have come to teach at Snape. These
include founder-director Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland, GalinaVishnevskaya, Jacqueline du Pré, MitsukoUchida, Mstislav Rostropovich, TonKoopman, and members of the AmadeusQuartet. This authoritative and anecdotalhistorical survey of the work of the School isgenerously illustrated and studded withquotations from many faculty members andformer students.$24.95/£14.99 may 2012978 0 95716 720 9120 B/w illus.; 224pp, 17 x 24, pBBittERn pREss
Imogen Holst: A Life in MusicR E V I S E D E D I T I O N
Edited by CHRISTOPHER GROGAN
Imogen Holst was one of the most wide-ranging and highly regarded ofmusicians and worked as BenjaminBritten’s assistant and artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival for decades.She was popular with all who knew her,but was intensively protective of herinner life, reminding one friend of a‘locked door of which she had thrownaway the key’.
An encounter with a true original ... Grogan has put together an excellentcritical biography. TLS
$34.95/£19.99 OCtOBER 2010978 1 84383 599 82 COlOuR & 52 B/w illus.; 522pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC lBOydEll pREss
New Aldeburgh AnthologyCompiled by ARIANE BANKES & JONATHAN REEKIE
Britten and Pears’ Aldeburgh Festivallies at the heart of the The NewAldeburgh Anthology. Their legacy is re-examined by musicians such as IanBostridge, Steven Isserlis and RogerVignoles. Poets such as Andrew Motion,Blake Morrison, Kevin Crossley-Hollandand Lavinia Greenlaw have all beeninspired by Aldeburgh’s bright yethaunting atmosphere. George EwartEvans, W.G. Sebald and Richard Mabeyare among those who respond to thepower of the landscape, others to thespell of the sea.
The long-term survival and eventualrejuvenation of Aldeburgh as a musicalnerve centre post-Britten has ... been atriumph of creativity over adversity andthis anthology gradually and magicallytells exactly how and why.GRAMOPHONE
aVailaBlE in:pB: $24.95/£14.99, 978 1 84383 588 2, apRil 2010hB: $60.00/£35.00, 978 1 84383 439 7, apRil 200920 COlOuR & 32 B/w illus.; 376pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBBOydEll pREss
O F R E L A T E DI N T E R E S T
puBlishEd in assOCiatiOn withaldEBuRgh musiC
NEW T I T L E S
Britten: ‘The Musical Character’and Other WritingsHANS KELLEREdited by CHRISTOPHER WINTLE
It was hearing an early performance ofBenjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes that turned theyoung emigré writer and musician Hans Kellerfrom psychology to music. Thereafter hebecame the composer’s most fervent advocate,devoting to him a whole issue of ‘Music Survey’(the journal he edited with Donald Mitchell)and the first comprehensive book on his music(again edited with Mitchell). This new volumeis a selection of the best of his writings; it also includes a study of the extensivecorrespondence between Britten and Keller(most of it hitherto unknown), a reprint of the handbooks on The Rape of Lucretia andAlbert Herring (long out-of-print). Illustratedwith drawings by Milein Cosman.aVailaBlE in: pB: $29.95/£17.99, 978 0 95660 075 2, apRil 2013hB: $70.00/£40.00, 978 0 95660 074 5, apRil 2013 24 x 16.5hans kEllER aRChiVE l plumBagO BOOks
Visit aldeburgh for a
programme of events
celebrating the Centenary of
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976),
and experience the true spirit
of one of the greatest musical
minds the uk has produced.
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
NEW
PeterPEARS
P
TRAVEL DIARIES1936–1978
EDITED BY PHILIP REED
BRITTEN’s
ESSAYS AND SOURCES
EDITED BY PAUL BANKS
Gloriana
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Britten’s GlorianaEssays and SourcesEdited by PAUL BANKS
Britten’s Gloriana has been a source ofcontroversy since its première as part of theCoronation celebrations in 1953. It wasplanned as a national opera of broad appeal, but the opera failed to establish itself in therepertoire until a new production in 1966revealed it to be a powerful and stageworthywork. This volume explores the opera’scultural background, the early stages of itscreative evolution, the first critical responses,and various other aspects of the work.
A rounded critical and historical study ... an indispensable resource for future Brittenstudies. MUSIC & LETTERS
$34.94/£19.99 july 2012 978 1 84383 797 8206pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936–1978PETER PEARSEdited by PHILIP REED
This volume brings together all the traveldiaries of Sir Peter Pears (1910–1986),principal interpreter of Britten’s works.Pears accompanied Britten on many of histrips and the record of their tour of the FarEast in 1955 is of special interest.
A valuable source of material on the musicaldevelopment of both Pears and BenjaminBritten ... a ‘must’ for those interested ineither. OPERA JOURNAL
$34.95/£19.99 junE 2099978 0 85115 741 234 B/w illus.; 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
Britten and the Far EastAsian Influences in the Music of Benjamin BrittenMERVYN COOKE
Benjamin Britten’s interest in the musicaltraditions of the Far East had a far-reachinginfluence on his compositional style; thisbook is the first to investigate the highlyoriginal cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of materialborrowed from Balinese, Japanese andIndian music. Accompanying CD oforiginal Balinese, Japanese and Indianrecordings. $45.00/£25.00 may 2001978 0 85115 830 39 B/w illus.; 299pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
On Mahler and BrittenEssays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his SeventiethBirthdayEdited by PHILIP REED
This Festschrift assembles essays on Mahlerand Britten, the two composers closest toMitchell’s heart, producing a volume whichreflects some of the latest thinking on this pairof remarkable figures in the music of ourcentury and pays tribute to the impact ofMitchell’s own work on these composers overthe last fifty years. $34.95/£19.99 junE 1998978 0 85115 614 9374pp, 23.4 x 15.3, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
Britten and Auden in theThirties: The Year 1936DONALD MITCHELLForeword by ALAN HOLLINGHURST
Britten’s settings of early Auden, OurHunting Fathers and On this Island, werehis first important songs to English texts.Britten’s diaries reveal detail of the twomen’s relationship, of their work together,and of the reflection within that work ofpolitical ideas current at the time.$34.95/£19.99 junE 2000978 0 85115 790 06 B/w illus.; 190pp, 21.5 x 13.8, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
LennoxBerkeley
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Writings, Letters and Interviews
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EDITED BY PETER DICKINSON
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Benjamin BrittenNew Perspectives on His Life and WorkEdited by LUCY WALKER
This essay collection engages with Britten’s juvenilia and other orchestralworks from the 1920s and examines a broadrange of influences, including the works ofShostakovich and Verdi. Other pieces lookat Owen Wingrave through a close study ofPiper’s libretto and a libretto written byAustralian novelist Patrick White with thehope of a future collaboration.
Walker’s book ... paves the way to a freer,more balanced view of the man andmusician. CLASSICAL MUSIC
$90.00/£50.00 nOVEmBER 2009978 1 84383 516 58 B/w illus.; 205pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
All the Gods Benjamin Britten’s Night-piece in Context
Christopher Wintle
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The Operas of Benjamin BrittenExpression and EvasionCLAIRE SEYMOUR
These analyses of Britten’s operas from PaulBunyan to Death in Venice, the three ChurchParables, and several of the ‘children’s operas’offer evidence that, for Britten, opera was thenatural medium through which to explore,express and, paradoxically, repress his privateconcerns.
A wide variety of ideas within two covers.GRAMOPHONE
$34.95/£19.99 may 2007978 1 84383 314 7368pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBBOydEll pREss
All the GodsBenjamin Britten’s Night-piece in ContextCHRISTOPHER WINTLE
This book is devoted to Night-piece (Notturno), written forthe first Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of 1963.It addresses the work from many points of view: historical,documentary, analytical, formal, kinetic, hermeneutical, and affective. Includes a wide range of illustrated allusions to other music, a full set of sketches, the printed score andarrays of modes and voice-leading graphs.
[A] major contribution to Britten studies, but its rich ideashave resonance far beyond this field. MUSIC & LETTERS
aVailaBlE in:pB: $39.95/£19.99, 978 0 95560 879 7, OCtOBER 2012hB: $60.00/£35.00, 9780954012380, sEptEmBER 2006 3 B/w illus.; 136pp, 24.4 x 17.2, pBpOEtiCs Of musiC l plumBagO BOOks
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Lennox Berkeley and FriendsWritings, Letters and InterviewsEdited by PETER DICKINSON
Berkeley was an elegant writer and it is fascinatingto read his first-hand memories of composers suchas Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Britten. Thebook also contains interviews with Berkeley'scolleagues, friends and family. These includeperformers such as Julian Bream and Norman DelMar; composers Nicholas Maw and MalcolmWilliamson; the composer's eldest son Michael,the composer and broadcaster, and Lady Berkeley.Lennox Berkeley knew Britten well and there aremany references to him in this collection.$80.00/£45.00 OCtOBER 2012978 1 84383 785 532 B/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBBOydEll pREss
NEW
PeterPEARS
P
TRAVEL DIARIES1936–1978
EDITED BY PHILIP REED
BRITTEN’s
ESSAYS AND SOURCES
EDITED BY PAUL BANKS
Gloriana
G
Britten’s GlorianaEssays and SourcesEdited by PAUL BANKS
Britten’s Gloriana has been a source ofcontroversy since its première as part of theCoronation celebrations in 1953. It wasplanned as a national opera of broad appeal, but the opera failed to establish itself in therepertoire until a new production in 1966revealed it to be a powerful and stageworthywork. This volume explores the opera’scultural background, the early stages of itscreative evolution, the first critical responses,and various other aspects of the work.
A rounded critical and historical study ... an indispensable resource for future Brittenstudies. MUSIC & LETTERS
$34.94/£19.99 july 2012 978 1 84383 797 8206pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936–1978PETER PEARSEdited by PHILIP REED
This volume brings together all the traveldiaries of Sir Peter Pears (1910–1986),principal interpreter of Britten’s works.Pears accompanied Britten on many of histrips and the record of their tour of the FarEast in 1955 is of special interest.
A valuable source of material on the musicaldevelopment of both Pears and BenjaminBritten ... a ‘must’ for those interested ineither. OPERA JOURNAL
$34.95/£19.99 junE 2099978 0 85115 741 234 B/w illus.; 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
Britten and the Far EastAsian Influences in the Music of Benjamin BrittenMERVYN COOKE
Benjamin Britten’s interest in the musicaltraditions of the Far East had a far-reachinginfluence on his compositional style; thisbook is the first to investigate the highlyoriginal cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of materialborrowed from Balinese, Japanese andIndian music. Accompanying CD oforiginal Balinese, Japanese and Indianrecordings. $45.00/£25.00 may 2001978 0 85115 830 39 B/w illus.; 299pp, 23.4 x 15.6, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
On Mahler and BrittenEssays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his SeventiethBirthdayEdited by PHILIP REED
This Festschrift assembles essays on Mahlerand Britten, the two composers closest toMitchell’s heart, producing a volume whichreflects some of the latest thinking on this pairof remarkable figures in the music of ourcentury and pays tribute to the impact ofMitchell’s own work on these composers overthe last fifty years. $34.95/£19.99 junE 1998978 0 85115 614 9374pp, 23.4 x 15.3, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
Britten and Auden in theThirties: The Year 1936DONALD MITCHELLForeword by ALAN HOLLINGHURST
Britten’s settings of early Auden, OurHunting Fathers and On this Island, werehis first important songs to English texts.Britten’s diaries reveal detail of the twomen’s relationship, of their work together,and of the reflection within that work ofpolitical ideas current at the time.$34.95/£19.99 junE 2000978 0 85115 790 06 B/w illus.; 190pp, 21.5 x 13.8, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
LennoxBerkeley
L
and friends
a
Writings, Letters and Interviews
L
EDITED BY PETER DICKINSON
P
S
Benjamin BrittenNew Perspectives on His Life and WorkEdited by LUCY WALKER
This essay collection engages with Britten’s juvenilia and other orchestralworks from the 1920s and examines a broadrange of influences, including the works ofShostakovich and Verdi. Other pieces lookat Owen Wingrave through a close study ofPiper’s libretto and a libretto written byAustralian novelist Patrick White with thehope of a future collaboration.
Walker’s book ... paves the way to a freer,more balanced view of the man andmusician. CLASSICAL MUSIC
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All the Gods Benjamin Britten’s Night-piece in Context
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The Operas of Benjamin BrittenExpression and EvasionCLAIRE SEYMOUR
These analyses of Britten’s operas from PaulBunyan to Death in Venice, the three ChurchParables, and several of the ‘children’s operas’offer evidence that, for Britten, opera was thenatural medium through which to explore,express and, paradoxically, repress his privateconcerns.
A wide variety of ideas within two covers.GRAMOPHONE
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All the GodsBenjamin Britten’s Night-piece in ContextCHRISTOPHER WINTLE
This book is devoted to Night-piece (Notturno), written forthe first Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of 1963.It addresses the work from many points of view: historical,documentary, analytical, formal, kinetic, hermeneutical, and affective. Includes a wide range of illustrated allusions to other music, a full set of sketches, the printed score andarrays of modes and voice-leading graphs.
[A] major contribution to Britten studies, but its rich ideashave resonance far beyond this field. MUSIC & LETTERS
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Lennox Berkeley and FriendsWritings, Letters and InterviewsEdited by PETER DICKINSON
Berkeley was an elegant writer and it is fascinatingto read his first-hand memories of composers suchas Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Britten. Thebook also contains interviews with Berkeley'scolleagues, friends and family. These includeperformers such as Julian Bream and Norman DelMar; composers Nicholas Maw and MalcolmWilliamson; the composer's eldest son Michael,the composer and broadcaster, and Lady Berkeley.Lennox Berkeley knew Britten well and there aremany references to him in this collection.$80.00/£45.00 OCtOBER 2012978 1 84383 785 532 B/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, hBBOydEll pREss
The Making of Peter Grimes 2 V O LU M E S E T
The Facsimile of Britten’s Composition Draft Edited by PAUL BANKS
Peter Grimes, Britten’s first opera, established hisstature as a composer, marked a turning point inthe fortunes of English opera, and conqueredoperatic stages around the world. The singledocument that reveals most about the work’screative history is the composition draft in whichthe composer wrestled with text and music,gradually fashioning the opera into its final version.The colour facsimile of this fascinating manuscriptis accompanied by a commentary volumecontaining a series of essays on the work’s historyand its contemporary significance by leadingBritten scholars and is illustrated with colourreproductions of some of the original costumedesigns by Kenneth Green, his portrait ofBenjamin Britten, and contemporary black and white photographs.
[W]ith something like awe one reads the facsimile,watches a genius’s pencil give ever more preciseform to his fiery visions; one marvels as instinct,inspiration and high technique conspire to create a masterpiece. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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VOLUME 2 (NOTES & COMMENTARIES) IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK:
The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays Edited by PAUL BANKS$45.00/£25.00 junE 2000978 0 85115 791 715 COlOuR & 26 B/w illus.; 310pp, 29.7 x 21, pBaldEBuRgh studiEs in musiC l BOydEll pREss
The Turn of the ScrewVisual Responses to Britten’s OperaImages by JANE MACKAYCommentary by ANDREW PLANTPreface by JAMES BOWMAN
Of their adaptation of Henry James’ allusive shortstory, librettist Myfanwy Piper wrote that she andBritten intended to ‘recreate it for a differentmedium’. This concept is developed further in Jane Mackay’s 33 paintings: a visual reaction to the music rather than illustrations to particularscenes, occupying a unique position betweenabstract and figurative art. Musicologist AndrewPlant, formerly of the Britten–Pears Library,provides an introduction and commentary and there is a preface by the distinguishedcountertenor James Bowman.
JANE MACKAY has broadcast widely on radioand television and has held numerous soloexhibitions, including shows at the FlorenceBiennale and London’s Wigmore Hall. She is also a choral singer and oboist.$165.00/£95.00 junE 2007978 0 95554 740 933 COlOuR & 3 B/w illus.; 96pp, 27 x 24.5, hBsOunding aRt pREss
B AC K L I S T
Suffolk-born BENJAMIN BRITTEN
is the most performed Britishtwentieth-century composerworldwide. November 2013 marks the composer’s centenaryand to celebrate there will beperformances of his music andexhibitions locally, nationally and internationally.
As a Suffolk-based publisher weare proud to present our widerange of publications on Britten,including a handful of brand newtitles, in this brochure to mark the BRITTEN 100 celebration. All publications listed in thisbrochure can also be seen on ourBritten webpage:
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To see the list of all BRITTEN 100
events in 2012/13 visit theBritten–Pears Foundation website:www.britten100.org
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