Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements (High Voice)

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BOOSEY

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36 (Set of Parts)

Boosey + Hawkes

The Turn of the Screw (op. 54) vocal score, published by Boosey &amp; Hawkes

The Turn of the Screw (vocal score)

Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his sexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. Most importantly, during this period Britten met Peter Pears and established the musical and personal relationship that was to last a lifetime. Volume One comes to a close in May 1939, when Britten, accompanied by Pears, departs for North America. The letters and diaries in this illuminating first volume and its successor are supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation. Together they constitute a comprehensive portrait not only of the composer but of an age.

Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1, 1923-1939

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Faber&Faber

In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. At the same time, the relationship between Britten and Pears deepened into a partnership that was to endure for almost forty years.Their absence from England during the first years of the war led to sharp public comment and controversy, much of it documented here. On their return from America in 1942, hostility to their pacifist convictions and to their homosexuality resurfaced. Prejudice and subterfuge even affected the premire of Peter Grimes in 1945, although it could not prevent the opera from being an unprecedented success.The letters in this second volume from the years 1939 to 1945 are among the most fascinating of the correspondence, and - supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation - offer a unique insight into American history, politics and culture during the Second World War.

Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2: 1939-1945

Faber & Faber, Limited

These letters see Britten in his prime; correspondents include librettists E. M. Forster (Billy Budd), and Myfanwy Piper (The Turn of the Screw), composer Francis Poulenc and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, who was Britten's partner. Among friends in the US are Christopher Isherwood and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky. This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of fascinatingly detailed information. Donald Mitchell contributes an introduction exploring Benjamin Britten's creativity and an essay examining, for the first time, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.

Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3: 1946-1951

Journeying Boy. The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938

Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1298-38

FABER

Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. "Journeying Boy" is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man. Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten's life - his early compositions, his education first under composer Frank Bridge and then at the Royal College of Music, an unhappy but productive period studying under John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his reluctant and often painful process of parting from the warm, safe environment of his family home and his beloved mother. The diaries cast light on an often misrepresented musician whose technique, originality and musical prowess have entranced audiences for generations and who continues to inspire composers and musicians around the world.

Journeying Boy

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Piano Variations (Piano Solo)

Faber Music Limited

Benjamin Britten. The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Opus 34. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. HPS 606. Pocket Score, 69 pages Unused old store stock MiniboxHHH

THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA VARIATIONS AND FUGUE ON A THEME OF PURCELL (ORCHESTRE)

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