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The Thirties and the War. Britten: four early works (1931-3) -- Tippett: String Quartet No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 1 (1934-7) -- Britten: Our Hunting Fathers to the Violin Concerto (1936-9) -- Tippett in 1939: The Concerto for Double String Orchestra -- Britten in America: 1939-42 -- Tippett: An oratorio, a string quartet and a cantata (1939-43) -- Britten's return: 1942-3 -- Tippett and symphonic form (1944-6) -- After the War (1944-63). Britten: Peter Grimes (1944-5) -- Britten: The Donne Sonnets and the String Quartet No. 2 (1945) -- Britten: The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring (1946-7) -- Britten: from Albert Herring to Billy Budd (1947-51) -- Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage (1946-52) -- Britten: from Canticle II to Winter Words (1952-3) -- Tippett: from the Corelli Fantasia to the Piano Concerto (1953-5) -- Britten: The Turn of the Screw to Noye's Fludde (1953-7) -- Tippett: symphony No. 2 (1956-7) -- Britten: The Nocturne to the War Requiem (1958-61) -- Tippett: King Priam (1958-61) -- Tippett: After King Priam (1962-3) -- Patterns of Transformation (1963-80). Britten: The Cello Symphony and Curlew River (1963-4) -- Tippett: The Vision of Saint Augustine (1963-5) -- Britten: Blake, Pushkin and the second Church Parable (1965-6) -- Britten: from The Prodigal Son to Who are these children? (1967-9) -- Tippett: The Knot Garden and Songs for Dov (1966-70) -- Britten: from Owen Wingrave to Death in Venice (1970-3) -- Tippett: Symphony No. 3, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1970-3) -- Britten: the final compositions (1974-6) -- Tippett: The Ice Break, and after (1973-80). |
