Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his fiftieth birthday / edited by Anthony Gishford
1963, First Edition. London : Faber and Faber. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Wrapper sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #469803
Physical description; 196 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portrait (black and white) and music ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 190). Contains essays and poems chiefly in English and some in French, Italian, and German. Contents; Foreword -- Hommage à Benjamin Britten / Francis Poulenc -- Dear Ben ... / Mstislav Rostropovich -- The Suffolk countryside / The Earl of Cranbrook -- The other side of the Alde / Kenneth Clark -- Arctic summer / E.M. Forster -- Ausflug Ost 1956 / Ludwig Prince of Hesse and the Rhine -- Twenty years ago / Clifford Curzon -- A visit to Snape / Aaron Copland -- A chivalrous tradition / Yehudi Menuhin -- Some thoughts on the libretto of "The turn of the screw" / Myfanwy Piper -- Some notes on the translation of Bach's Passions / Peter Pears -- The Morley Consort lessons / Julian Bream -- The truth about Così / Donald Mitchell -- Boys' voices / George Malcolm -- Indian music / Imogen Holst -- Key characteristics / Hans Keller -- Praise we great men / Edith Sitwell -- Edward FitzGerald / William Plomer -- Capriccio : Lathyrus maritimus / Robert Gathorne-Hardy -- The humanity of George Crabbe / Ronald Duncan -- In memoriam, Erwin Stein 1885-1958 / The Earl of Harewood -- Dinu Lipatti / Paul Sacher -- A poem by Goethe / Elizabeth Mayer -- Excerpt from a letter to the editor / Carlo Maria Giulini -- The bad old days / Joan Cross -- Greek shadow theatre / Eric Walter White -- The peaceable kingdom / Anthony Gishford. Subjects; Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976. Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976 Studies. Britten, Benjamin Studies. Aldeburgh Festival. Music History and criticism. Composers England. Music.
Price: €35.00