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These letters see Britten in his prime correspondents include librettists E M Forster Billy Budd and Myfanwy Piper The Turn of the Screw composer Francis Poulenc and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears who was Brittens partner Among friends in the US are Christopher Isherwood and Aaron Copland and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations which offer a wide range of fascinatingly detailed information Donald Mitchell contributes an introduction exploring Benjamin Brittens creativity and an essay examining for the first time the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward SackvilleWest
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The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke covers the years 195865 during which he wrote two major operatic works A Midsummer Nights Dream and the groundbreaking Curlew River and his pacifist choral masterpiece War Requiem Other significant compositions from the period include the orchestral songcycle Nocturne the first of the cello pieces for Rostropovich and settings of poems by Blake and Pushkin Correspondents include friends fellow artists and collaborators such as William Plomer librettist of Curlew River Edith Sitwell E M Forster Christopher Isherwood Robert Graves the Earl of Harewood Yehudi Menuhin Mstislav Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya Dmitri Shostakovich Dietrich FischerDieskau Barbara Hepworth and Duncan Grant as well as Brittens partner and principal interpreter Peter Pears The volume charts the peak of Brittens position as one of the leading figures of the international musical establishment as composer conductor and pianist and his continuing involvement with the Aldeburgh Festival and the English Opera Group The deterioration in Brittens relationship with Boosey amp Hawkes his publishers since the mid1930s is closely documented as is the founding at the composers instigation of the new publishing house of Faber Music in 1964 Central to the period is the composers warm friendship with musicians from the Soviet Union and Britten and Pearss visits to Moscow Leningrad and Armenia are charted in detail Published in association with The BrittenPears Foundation
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These remarkable letters never before published constitute a comprehensive biography told largely in Brittens own words Volume 1 accompanies him through prep and English public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music where the young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends among them Auden and Isherwood This was a time of prodigious musical creativity a growing awareness of his homosexuality and the dawning of his political convictions It was during this time that Britten met Peter Pears the partner with whom his musical and personal relationship was to last a lifetime This volume closes in May 1939 when Britten and Pears depart for the United StatesVolume 2 offers an overview of a crucial period in American and British history politics and culture Brittens experience of exile his return with Pears to England to face recriminations as a Conscientious Objector and prejudice as a brilliant gay artist and the triumph of his first major opera Peter Grimes are all outlined in letters which are a fascinating mix of the public and privateThese first two volumes of the Selected Letters and Diariesa further two are in preparationmake a fundamental contribution to Britten studies and to twentiethcentury cultural history
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These remarkable letters never before published constitute a comprehensive biography told largely in Brittens own words Volume 1 accompanies him through prep and English public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music where the young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends among them Auden and Isherwood This was a time of prodigious musical creativity a growing awareness of his homosexuality and the dawning of his political convictions It was during this time that Britten met Peter Pears the partner with whom his musical and personal relationship was to last a lifetime This volume closes in May 1939 when Britten and Pears depart for the United StatesVolume 2 offers an overview of a crucial period in American and British history politics and culture Brittens experience of exile his return with Pears to England to face recriminations as a Conscientious Objector and prejudice as a brilliant gay artist and the triumph of his first major opera Peter Grimes are all outlined in letters which are a fascinating mix of the public and privateThese first two volumes of the Selected Letters and Diariesa further two are in preparationmake a fundamental contribution to Britten studies and to twentiethcentury cultural history
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The sixth and final volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke covers the composers last decade The genesis composition and premieres of major stage works such as Owen Wingrave commissioned by BBC Television and Death in Venice are fully documented as are the church parables The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son Important concert works from this period include the powerful Brecht setting Childrens Crusade the Third Cello Suite for Rostropovich Canticles IV and V both settings of poetry by T S Eliot Phaedra for Janet Baker and the Third String Quartet with its haunting echoes of Death in Venice As in previous volumes Brittens letters to his life partner and principal interpreter the tenor Peter Pears remain central Other significant correspondents include the Queen and Queen Mother librettists William Plomer and Myfanwy Piper artistic collaborators Frederick Ashton Colin Graham and John Piper musicians Janet Baker Dietrich FischerDieskau and Mstislav Rostropovich and composers Oliver Knussen Dmitri Shostakovich and William Walton The volume also traces the conversion of Snape Maltings into the Aldeburgh Festivals principal concert venue its destruction by fire on the opening night of the 1969 Festival and its miraculous rebuilding in time for the following years Festival as well as major concert tours by Britten and Pears to New York Canada South America Moscow and Leningrad Australia and New Zealand Close attention is paid to Brittens final years when his failed heart surgery left him a near invalid Published in association with The BrittenPears Foundation
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