Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas write by Eric Walter White. This book was released on 1983. Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Benjamin Britten write by Paul Kildea. This book was released on 2014-02-27. Benjamin Britten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Benjamin Britten write by Lucy Walker. This book was released on 2009. Benjamin Britten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw write by Patricia Howard. This book was released on 1985-09-19. Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story was transformed into an opera. The central chapter, on the musical style and structures of the opera, includes an account of the composition process deduced from early sketches of the work by John Evans, an analysis of the unique form of the opera with a more detailed examination of the last scene by Patricia Howard, and an account of the significance and effect of the orchestration by Christopher Palmer. Finally, Patricia Howard traces the stage history of the work, from its initial reception in Venice in 1954, through some seminal reinterpretations in the 1960s to its present established position in the repertoire. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and discography.
The Operas of Benjamin Britten
The Operas of Benjamin Britten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Operas of Benjamin Britten write by Claire Seymour. This book was released on 2007. The Operas of Benjamin Britten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysis of Britten's operatic works reveals opera as the natural medium through which he explored his private concerns.
