Benjamin Britten

Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

• Introduction - Lucy WalkerGoing Behind Britten's Back - Colin MatthewsPerforming Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poemes Nos 4 and 5 (1927) - Sharon ChoaShostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem? - Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten - George CairdBritten and the Cinematic Frame - David CrillyStorms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - Jane BrandonDramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave - Frances Spalding'The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone': Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave - Arne MuusMade You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice - From the Borough to Fraser Island - Claire SeymourBritten and France; or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe - Maena PyWhy did Britten Return to Wartime England? - Brian McMahon

This book contains substantive discussion of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It is a solid contribution to the libraries of those who admire the composer and his work.