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“One of the most illuminating biographical projects in
recent years.” Peter Ackroyd
Widely reviewed and successful series formerly published by
Faber in the UK and the University of California Press in
the US.
This volume covers an important period in Britten’s life.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd is
pleased to announce that, starting with Volume Four, it will
take over worldwide publication of the acclaimed series,
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin
Britten, 1913–1976. The books will appear under the
imprint of the Boydell Press. |
The fourth volume of the annotated
selected letters of Benjamin Britten covers the years 1952–57, during
which he wrote three major works for the stage – the Coronation opera
Gloriana, the chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, and the
full-length ballet The Prince of the Pagodas – as well as
important vocal works such as Canticles II and III and the
Hardy song-cycle Winter Words.
Correspondents include librettists William Plomer and Myfanwy Piper, and
friends and collaborators such as Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Basil
Coleman, Imogen Holst, Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, the Earl of
Harewood and Britten’s partner and principal interpreter, Peter Pears.
The volume charts Britten’s growing stature as a major figure of the
European musical establishment as composer, conductor and pianist, and
his continuing involvement with the Aldeburgh Festival, the English
Opera Group, and Covent Garden. Central to the period is the world trip
undertaken by Britten and Pears and the first-hand encounter with the
music and cultures of Bali and Japan that were radically to inform
Britten’s compositional techniques from Pagodas onwards.
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57 b/w illustrations
69 line illustrations
680 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
ISBN: 9781843833826
Binding: Hardback
Publication date: 29/May/08 Series:
Selected Letters of Britten
Price: £45.00 / $90.00
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