Foreword Colin Matthews Britten’s Indian Summer: What is ‘lateness’? The Red House The Late Years: a timeline Venice Creativity Undiminished Linda Hutcheon & Michael Hutcheon Horham Britten’s Late Circle Rita Thomson Rosamund Strode Colin Matthews Donald Mitchell What Went Wrong With Britten’s Health Dr Stephen Lock Wolfsgarten The Late Works
Introduction Why poetry? Mrs Britten W. H. Auden Walter de la Mare Peter Pears William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ William Blake Edith Sitwell Praise We Great Men Visualisation: Screenshots of digital diagrams of the temporal relations between Britten’s songs and the lifetimes of his poets Winter Words Thomas Hardy The song cycles List of poets set
Foreword Sue Sanders Introduction Lucy Walker Edging towards Wolfenden Paul Kildea The Road to Decriminalisation Christopher Rogers Basil Dearden’s ‘Victim’ and the Call for Legal Reform Andrew Moor What Britten and Pears’ Letters Tell Us Nicholas Clark Four Productions Neil Bartlett Reflections on his four Britten production (see below) The Indecency of the Closet …
Preface Preface to the 1993 edition Life Suffolk childhood Frank Bridge At the College Auden & Co. America The return The Borough Aldeburgh Gloriana Gamelan War Requiem Noh-play in Orford Moscow and Maltings The fire Death in Suffolk Pride and prejudice Music 1923-35 1936-39 1939-42 1942-45 1945-48 1949-54 1955-60 1961-71 1970-73 1973-76 Epilogue After 1976
Prefac to the Second edition Life Early Work and Training Collaboration with W. H. Auden American Visit In Wartime England First Operatic Successes Festival Interlude Aldeburgh: Living in Crabbe Street Aldeburgh: At the Red House Personal Postscript The Operas Appendices include: Extract from The Britten Estate Executors’ Press Statement (1967) Establishment of the Britten-Pears Library …