Benjamin Britten and Russia /

Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pyke, Cameron (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2016.
Series:Aldeburgh studies in music ; v. 11.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration and Sources; 1 Earliest and Lifelong Russophilia; 2 Britten and Shostakovich, 1934-63; 3 Britten and Prokofiev; 4 Britten and Stravinsky; 5 Hospitality and Politics; 6 Pushkin and Performance; 7 Britten and Shostakovich Again: Dialogues of War and Death, 1963-76; Conclusion; Appendices; 1 Letter from Lord Armstrong of Ilminster; 2 Interview with Alan Brooke Turner; 3 Interview with Keith Grant; 4 Interview with Lord Harewood; 5 Interview with Victor Hochhauser.
  • 6 Interview with Lilian Hochhauser7 Letter from Sir Charles Mackerras; 8 Interview with Donald Mitchell; 9 Interview with Sir John Morgan; 10 Interview with Gennady Rozhdestvensky; 11 Interview with Irina Shostakovich; 12 Letter from Boris Tishchenko; 13 Interview with Oleg Vinogradov; 14 Interview with Galina Vishnevskaya; 15 Letters from Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova; 16 Letter from Vladislav Chernushenko; 17 Britten's Volumes of Tchaikovsky's Complete Works; Bibliography and Sources; Index.