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On Mahler and Britten

Catalogue No: BH10975
Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday

Product FormatBook
EditorReed, Philip
£28.99
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Pages374
ISMN9790060109751 (M060109751)
These studies were first published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. They are the work of distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world, and reflect much of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century.

Contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. List of Abbreviations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Donald Mitchell: A Chronology
  5. Marion Thorpe: Foreword
  6. Paul Banks: Mahler and Viennese Modernism-Herta Blaukopf: Gustav Mahlers Sprache
  7. Asa Briggs: Mahler and the BBC
  8. Peter Franklin: Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations
  9. Henry-Louis de la Grange: Mahler and the New York Philharmonic. The Truth Behind the Legend
  10. Gilbert Kaplan: Mahler on Stamps
  11. Colin Matthews: Mahler and Self-Renewal
  12. David Matthews: In Search of Mahler's Childhood
  13. Eveline Nikkels: Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69. A Symphony in Words
  14. Edward R. Reilly: A New Transition. Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninthe Symphony
  15. Peter Sculthorpe: The Song of the Earth. Some Personal Thoughts
  16. Erwin Stein: Mahler the Factual
  17. John Williamson: Mahler and Pfitzner. A Parallel Development
  18. Mervyn Cooke: From Nõ to Nebuchadnezzar
  19. David Drew: Britten and His Fellow Composers. Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday
  20. Peter Du Sautoy: Donald Mitchell as Publisher. A Personal Recollection
  21. Oliver Knussen: The Key to the Parade
  22. Ludmila Kovnatskaya: Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes
  23. Edward Mendelson: The Making of Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day
  24. Kathleen Mitchell: Edinburgh Diary 1968
  25. Christopher Palmer: Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice
  26. Myfanwy Piper: Venice, 1954
  27. Philip Reed: On the Sketches for Billy Budd
  28. Eric Roseberry: "Abraham and Isaac" Revisited. Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion
  29. Edward W. Said: Not All the Way to the Tigers. Britten's Death in Venice
  30. Somsak Ketukaenchan: A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan
  31. Rosamund Strode: Writing and Copying. A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music
  32. Arnold Whittall: Along the Knife-Edge. The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's Musical Aesthetic
  33. Maureen Buja: A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945-1995
  34. Notes on the Contributors
  35. Jill Burrows: Index
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