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Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41This book is exceptional amongst those that have appeared so far in this well-established series, in that it is largely written by those who worked with the composer and assisted him during the... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847495440Author Benjamin BrittenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Oneworld Classics... -
Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment Peter Franklin 9781032666648
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is 'classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes... -
Benjamin Britten and Russia by Cameron Pyke 9781783271139
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten. This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout... -
Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment Peter Franklin 9781032666600
Booksplease Price: £60.08Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is 'classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a... -
The Music of Benjamin Britten by Peter Evans 9780198165903
Booksplease Price: £82.13Peter Evans discusses all the published compositions in subdivisions of genre and period, and devotes a separate chapter to each opera. With the help of over 300 music examples and diagrams, he... -
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Philip Brett
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was... -
Benjamin Britten in Context by Vicki P Stroeher
Booksplease Price: £98.74Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor, educator, composer of a wide range of music from large-scale operas and choral works to string quartets and songs, is acknowledged as a pivotal figure in... -
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw by Patricia Howard 9780521283564
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of... -
Benjamin Britten in Context by Vicki P Stroeher 9781108721844
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.88Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor, educator, composer of a wide range of music from large-scale operas and choral works to string quartets and songs, is acknowledged as a pivotal figure in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke 9780521574761
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and... -
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd by Mervyn Cooke 9780521387507
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperbackBenjamin Britten was Britain's greatest... -
The Operas of Benjamin Britten - Expression and Evasion by Claire Seymour 9781843833147
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.40This controversial analysis of Britten's operatic works demonstrates how he used music to explore his most private concerns. Claire Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and... -
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Benjamin Britten: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter 9780571143252 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.46A biography of Benjamin Britten which presents a panorama of British musical life since the 1920s.Benjamin Britten by Humphrey Carpenter is a brilliant, enthralling biography of Benjamin Britten, one... -
Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research by Peter John Hodgson 9780415763707
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer,... -
12 Selected Folksong Arrangements - High Voice by Benjamin Britten 9781423441298
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423441298Author Benjamin BrittenPage Count 40Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Hymn to St. Cecilia: Ssatb with Solos A Cappella by Benjamin Britten 9781458423504
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458423504Author Benjamin BrittenFormat PaperbackImprint Boosey & Hawkes IncPublisher Boosey... -
Benjamin Britten: A Bio-Bibliography by Professor Stewart R. Craggs 9780313295317
Booksplease Price: £66.89Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time. His music crossed boundaries of genre and form to include opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and film and incidental... -
Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work by Lucy Walker
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of... -
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid Op.49 by Benjamin Britten 9781480342002
Booksplease Price: £16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480342002Author Benjamin BrittenPage Count 12Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
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Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell 9780099537366 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.59Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a... -
A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical... -
Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 by Dr John Evans
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a... -
Britten and the Far East - Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke 9780851158303
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional... -
Samuel Barber & Benjamin Britten - A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music by Daniel Felsenfeld 9781574671087
Booksplease Price: £23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574671087Author Daniel FelsenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal... -
Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten Graham Johnson 9780754638728
Booksplease Price: £69.83This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the... -
Missa Brevis in D - New Edition: For Boys' Voices and Organ by Benjamin Britten 9781480367746
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480367746Author Benjamin BrittenFormat HardbackImprint Boosey & Hawkes IncPublisher Boosey &... -
Benjamin Britten's 'Holy Theatre' From Opera-Oratorio To Theatre-Parable by Barbara A Diana 9781849551199
Booksplease Price: £18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849551199Author Barbara A DianaFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Travis and Emery Music... -
Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936 Donald Mitchell 9780851157900
Booksplease Price: £29.68A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s,... -
My Beloved Man - The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears by Vicki P. Stroeher 9781783271085
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.49It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two... -
Benjamin Britten's 'Holy Theatre' From Opera-Oratorio To Theatre-Parable by Barbara A Diana 9781849551182
Booksplease Price: £36.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849551182Author Barbara A DianaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Travis and Emery Music... -
The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem Martha C. Nussbaum 9780197568538
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.18The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum,... -
Knowing Britten by Steuart Bedford 9780957167223
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.90Knowing Britten is a vivid and insightful account of Steuart Bedford's long association with both Britten the man and his music - 2021 Book of the Year -Presto Music The conductor and pianist... -
Television Opera - The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television by Jennifer Barnes 9780851159126
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.36The conventions of television and their impact on composer and opera are discussed, with particular reference to Amahl and the Night Visitors, Owen Wingrave, and The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit. ... -
British Music after Britten by Arnold Whittall 9781783274970
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.38By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him. ... -
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain: Walter Hussey and the Arts by Peter Webster 9781137369093
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester... -
A Musical Eye - The Visual World of Britten and Pears by Judith LeGrove
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29This heavily illustrated publication considers the importance of art and design in the lives of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. Anyone who has visited the Red House in Aldeburgh... -
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins 9780618711970
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618711970Author Sherill TippinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher...