Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978

Philip Reed is an independent scholar whose many publications include co-editing six volumes of Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976; Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (edited with Mervyn Cooke); The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-78 and On Mahler and Britten, as well as contributions to studies of Britten's operas and War Requiem, and books on Poulenc and Elizabeth Maconchy. Philip Reed is an independent scholar whose many publications include co-editing six volumes of Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976; Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (edited with Mervyn Cooke); The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-78 and On Mahler and Britten, as well as contributions to studies of Britten's operas and War Requiem, and books on Poulenc and Elizabeth Maconchy.

• American tour with the New English Singers (1936); world trip (1955-56); Ansbach Bach Festival (1959); India (1965); Armenian holiday - a diary (August 1965); Moscow Christmas - a diary (December 1966); Nevis fortnight (1967); Moscow diary (1971); Saint Enoch (1972); San Fortunato (1972); the New York "Death in Venice" (1974); the New York "Billy Budd" (1978); appendix - German text of chapter 3.

A valuable source of material on the musical development of both Pears and Benjamin Britten...a 'must' for those interested in either.