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Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 - Volume Five: 1958-1965 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 - Volume Five: 1958-1965 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Selected Letters of Britten
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This fifth volume of Britten's letters covers a period of intense
activity in his life and works, culminating in his great pacifist
choral masterpiece, War Requiem. The fifth volume of the annotated
selected letters of Benjamin Britten - edited by Philip Reed and
Mervyn Cooke - covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two
major operatic works, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the
ground-breaking Curlew River, and his pacifist choral masterpiece,
War Requiem. Other significant compositions from the period include
the orchestral song-cycle 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 Fischer-Dieskau,
Barbara Hepworth and Duncan Grant, as well as Britten's partner and
principal interpreter, Peter Pears. The volume charts the peak of
Britten's 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 Britten's
relationship with Boosey & Hawkes, his publishers since the
mid-1930s, is closely documented, as is the founding, at the
composer's instigation, of the new publishing house of Faber Music
in 1964. Central to the period is the composer's warm friendship
with musicians from the Soviet Union, and Britten and Pears's
visits to Moscow, Leningrad and Armenia are charted in detail.
Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation.
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