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Author : Mark Bostridge
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Britten's Century by : Mark Bostridge
Download or read book Britten's Century written by Mark Bostridge. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event.
Author : Paul Kildea
Release : 2014-02-27
Genre : Composers
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Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten by : Paul Kildea
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Paul Kildea. This book was released on 2014-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperback Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. Paul Kildea's biography has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Britten's extraordinary life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. Above all, however, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its unique alchemy as we are ever likely to go. PAUL KILDEA is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London, and lives in Berlin. 'Must now rank as the standard work' Financial Times 'Indispensable ... This is a masterly, highly readable account and the most comprehensive to date of the life and work of one of the 20th century's great musical figures' Barry Millington, Evening Standard ' A] wise, cautious, challenging book ... Kildea's verbal explorations of the music are done with level-headed sensitivity leavened by a quirky lightness of touch' Alexandra Harris, New Statesman
Author : Karyl Carlson
Release : 2013
Genre : Composers
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten at 100 by : Karyl Carlson
Download or read book Benjamin Britten at 100 written by Karyl Carlson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Walker
Release : 2009
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 169/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Benjamin Britten by : Lucy Walker
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Lucy Walker. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.
Author : John Bridcut
Release : 2011-04-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 926/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Britten's Children by : John Bridcut
Download or read book Britten's Children written by John Bridcut. This book was released on 2011-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.
