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Britten: Essays, Letters and Opera Guides. 9780956600752

Britten: Essays, Letters and Opera Guides

Plumbago Books and Arts. 2013

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  • EAN: 9780956600752
  • ISBN: 978-0-9566007-5-2
  • Editorial: Plumbago Books and Arts
  • Fecha de edición: 2013
  • Encuadernación: Rústica
  • Dimensiones: 15,5x23,5
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: XX+382

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Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten appear to make up a self-contained critical monograph, with essays on many of the operas and instrumental pieces written from 1940 on. These include perceptive studies of "The Musical Character", "Resistances to Britten", "Gloriana" and "Operatic Music and Britten", with an approach that blends Freudian psychology with Austro-German musical analysis and criticism. But Keller was also a Hitler Emigré determined to re-invent his native Vienna in London. Into this cause he drew Britten, whose accomplishments so readily appealed to Europeans, and defied British critics with the force of his advocacy. After co-editing a Britten monograph, he came ever closer to the composer, especially during his BBC years (1959-79). The character of the relationship emerges from their letters, which are set into context and published here for the first time. Britten rewarded Keller with the dedication of his last work, the Third String Quartet, the origins of which are also newly revealed. Milein Cosman's "Operatic Sketchbook" includes striking drawings from Britten's operas of the 1940s and '50s; and Keller's deft guides to "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "Albert Herring" and "The Beggar's Opera" appear in the Appendix. The writing bursts with excitement at witnessing the long birth of a great musical oeuvre.

CONTENIDO:

-Preface (Christopher Wintle)
-Acknowledgements
-A note on the text

Part One: On and around the music (Hans Keller)
1. Great English composer
2. A film analysis of the orchestra (on "The Young Person's Guide")
3. The Second String Quartet
4. "Peter Grimes" at Covent Garden (review)
5. "The Rape of Lucretia" (reviews, 1946-50)
6. The First Aldeburgh Festival
7. Britten and the young (on "Let's Make an Opera")
8. Resistances to Britten's music: Their psychology
9. "Night Mail"
10. Britten's art of accompaniment
11. Thematic relations (on the "Mad Interlude" in "Peter Grimes")
12. The problem of taste in opera (on "Albert Herring")
13. The musical character (subsuming Britten and Mozart)
14. Holland: Music's new-found land (on "The Turn of the Screw")
15. The fishing Englishman in Holland (on "Peter Grimes")
16. "Sinfonia da Requiem" (1)
17. "Sinfonia da Requiem" (2) (on "Key, Ostinato, Row")
18. "Peter Grimes" revived
19. "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
20. The world around Britten (on Britten at 50)
21. "Billy Budd" (on the two versions)
22. Britten's new opera (on "Curlew River")
23. Stravinsky and Britten via Schoenberg (book review)
24. "Gloriana" as music drama
25. "Children's Crusade"
26. Why this piece is about "Billy Budd"
27. Britten and Reger (on two radio transmissions)
28. Death of a genius
29. Sacred music in a secular age (on the "War Requiem")
30. Operatic music and Britten
31. The Third String Quartet
32. The string quartets

Part Two: An operatic sketchbook (Milein Cosman)
1. Britten and Cosman (Ines Schlenker)
2. An operatic sketchbook (with a list of drawings)

Part Three: Britten and Keller, letters and life (A. M. Garnham)

Appendices (Hans Keller)
1. "Peter Grimes": The story; the music not excluded (notes for a recording)
2. "The Rape of Lucretia" (Covent Garden opera guide)
3. "Albert Herring" (Covent Garden opera guide)
4. "The Beggar's Opera" (introductory essay)

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