| Contents |
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) -- Postscript: the Britten legacy -- 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) -- Tippett: into the eighties (1980-9). |
| Abstract |
In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, the author builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. For this second, revised edition Whittall includes a new chapter on Tippett's major works of the 1980s - the Piano Sonata No. 4, the large-scale choral composition The Mask of Time and the most recent opera, New Year. In addition, new information on the Britten repertoire and an updated bibliography are also presented. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 318) and index. |
| LCCN | 89071275 |
| ISBN | 0521385016 (hard) |
| ISBN | 0521386683 (pbk.) |
