On Mahler and Britten, Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday

Edición de / Edited by: Reed, Philip

These studies were first published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. They are the work of distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world, and reflect much of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century.

CONTENIDO:

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Donald Mitchell: A Chronology
Marion Thorpe: Foreword
Paul Banks: Mahler and Viennese Modernism-Herta Blaukopf: Gustav Mahlers Sprache
Asa Briggs: Mahler and the BBC
Peter Franklin: Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations
Henry-Louis de la Grange: Mahler and the New York Philharmonic. The Truth Behind the Legend
Gilbert Kaplan: Mahler on Stamps
Colin Matthews: Mahler and Self-Renewal
David Matthews: In Search of Mahler's Childhood
Eveline Nikkels: Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69. A Symphony in Words
Edward R. Reilly: A New Transition. Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninthe Symphony
Peter Sculthorpe: The Song of the Earth. Some Personal Thoughts
Erwin Stein: Mahler the Factual
John Williamson: Mahler and Pfitzner. A Parallel Development
Mervyn Cooke: From Nõ to Nebuchadnezzar
David Drew: Britten and His Fellow Composers. Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday
Peter Du Sautoy: Donald Mitchell as Publisher. A Personal Recollection
Oliver Knussen: The Key to the Parade
Ludmila Kovnatskaya: Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes
Edward Mendelson: The Making of Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day
Kathleen Mitchell: Edinburgh Diary 1968
Christopher Palmer: Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice
Myfanwy Piper: Venice, 1954
Philip Reed: On the Sketches for Billy Budd
Eric Roseberry: Abraham and Isaac Revisited. Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion
Edward W. Said: Not All the Way to the Tigers. Britten's Death in Venice
Somsak Ketukaenchan: A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan
Rosamund Strode: Writing and Copying. A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music
Arnold Whittall: Along the Knife-Edge. The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's Musical Aesthetic
Maureen Buja: A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945-1995
Notes on the Contributors
Jill Burrows: Index