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A photographic journey, including a selection of previously
unpublished images, that reveal the man 'behind the scenes' at work
and play. A new and often surprising portrait of this major musical
genius. Benjamin Britten was one of the most important cultural
figures in England in the twentieth century. Internationally
renowned as a composer, performer, and founder of the Aldeburgh
Festival and English Opera Group, he had a careerspanning nearly
five decades, producing a series of works such as Peter Grimes and
the War Requiem that caught the public imagination, and becoming a
familiar figure to worldwide concert and TV and radio audiences
through his conducting and song recitals with his partner, the
tenor Peter Pears. Behind this public face, however, Britten was an
intensively private man, who valued perhaps more than anything the
time he spent at home on the Suffolk coast, composing and enjoying
a settled domestic life. Britten in Pictures celebrates the many
facets of Britten's life in a major new photographic treatment
timed to coincide with the composer's centenary in 2013. Using the
wealth of images housed in the collections of The Britten-Pears
Foundation at Aldeburgh, the book charts the curve of Britten's
life, using a selection of rare and previously unpublished images
to reveal him anew in all phases of his career, catching a
multitude of informal glimpses of the man 'behind the scenes' at
work and play as well as in more familiar formal settings. The
result is a new and often surprising portrait of this major musical
genius. Published in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation.
An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences
such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a
libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope
of a future collaboration. Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on
his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship
is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The
volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the
1920s and examines a broad range of influences on Britten,
including the works of Shostakovich and Verdi, the poetry of Ovid,
and the cinema. Among his operatic works the dramatic qualities of
Owen Wingrave arediscussed through a close study of Piper's
libretto and we witness the genesis of a libretto written by
Australian novelist Patrick White and submitted to Britten with the
hope of a future collaboration. The volume uncovers the generally
hostile reception Britten's operas received in Paris until around
the 1990s. Britten's status as 'outsider' in both the USA and in
his own country when he returned in 1942 is discussed: the
possibility is that Britten wasbecoming nervous of the gathering US
involvement in the war and the real chance he may be called up to
serve in the US forces is also discussed here.
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