Description
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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. * ANGELICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY *
These essays should spark discussion among scholars and fans of Britten. * BOOK NEWS *
Walker's book... paves the way to a freer, more balanced view of the man and musician. * CLASSICAL MUSIC *
Read and reflect, discuss and argue: [the contributors] are mostly new to Britten studies... and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see two writers from continental Europe... Britten was an internationalist and it is surely right that Britten studies should be too. * GRAMOPHONE *
It is [the] critrical distance, and the absence of for-or-against defensiveness which has often scarred Britten scholarship, that distinguishes Walker's volume. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843835165
Author Lucy Walker
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd