"The idea was good": the story of Benjamin Britten's War requiem
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Coventry
Coventry Cathedral Books
2012
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| Links: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=025911315&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Beschreibung: | Col. ill. and text on endpapers. - "[P]ublished to celebrate the 50th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten's War requiem in St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry on 30 May 2012, by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as part of Coventry Cathedral's Golden Jubilee celebrations"--P. [4] Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-142) |
| Umfang: | 142 S. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780954419714 0954419715 |
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| adam_text | Contents
A
Brief
Introduction to Benjamin Britten s War Requiem
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Acknowledgements is
The Dean of Coventry on the 50th Anniversary of War Requiem
η
Preface
19
Part One
The Genesis of War Requiem
Chapter
1
War Requiem in Context
23
A Cathedral destroyed and a city devastated
A Cathedral Rebuilt and Consecrated
A Festival to celebrate the Consecration
Chapter
2
The Genesis of War Requiem
29
Britten and pacifism
Britten and homosexuality
The results of Britten s pacifism in the
1930s
Sojourn in the USA
Coming home
The end of the Second World War
Opportunities lost and finally found
Chapter
3
Why Choose Wilfred Owen?
-/;;
The poetry of the Great War
Where were the Second World War poets?
Chapter
4
But was it a New Idea?
47
Brahms comforts the living
Delius alienates the living
Elgar s Requiem for a lost generation
Bliss mourns the loss of a brother in battle
Vaughan Williams gives a prophetic warning
Hindemith s Requiem for a fallen President
John Foulds seeks to comfort a post-war world
Britten, Verdi and their Requiems
Chapter
5
Working on the Coventry Commission
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A new work for a new cathedral
Composition
Incorporating the Owen texts
The Notebook Entries
Composition draft
The Full Score
Chapter
6
The Dedicatees
65
Part Two
War Requiem is performed
Chapter
7
Bringing War Requiem to its first performance
Preparations
Britten has misgivings about a Festival Chorus
Was the wrong orchestra chosen for the premiere?
Trying to secure the right soloists
Who would conduct the premiere?
The build-up to the Premiere
Sir Arthur Bliss is disadvantaged
The Premiere itself
Chapter
8
Critical Reaction
Chapter
9
The Legacy of War Requiem
Britten s role as artistic conscience to a corrupted society
A work to celebrate the Red Cross
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Cantata Misericordium
A work for the United Nations
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Voices for Today
A work for the Save the Children Fund
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Children s Crusade
Who are These Children? - a work about the destruction of innocence
A television opera about pacifism
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Owen Wingrave
Newer Requiems for War
Continuing the message of War Requiem
War Requiem as a Film
Britten s War Requiem fifty years on
69
85
Part Three
Additional material in the story of War Requiem
A Guide to War Requiem
99
War Requiem and Britten s Musical Timeline
A guide to War Requiem
I. Requiem aeternam
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(Sad Anthems for Doomed Youth)
II. Dies irae
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(The Trumpet, Scattering its Awful Sound)
III. Offertorium
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(The Promise of Death)
IV. Sanctus
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(The Question of Consolation)
V. Agnus Dei
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(The Old Lie, but is it really sweet and right to
die for your Country?)
VI.
Libera
me
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(War is Death without Rebirth)
Recordings
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Text of
Mea Culpa
(Ronald Duncan)
121
Features of the Compositional Draft 12s
I. Requiem aeternam
II. Dies irae
III. Offertorium
IV. Sanctus
V. Agnus Dei
VI.
Libera
me
Detailed Comparisons with the Verdi Requiem
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Personalities in the Story of War Requiem
¡34
(Edward) Benjamin Britten
(1913 - 1976)
Wilfred (Edward
Salter) Owen (1893 - 1918)
(Wystan Hugh) WH Auden
(1907 - 1973)
Ronald (Frederick Henry) Duncan
(1914 - 1982)
Meredith Davies
(1922 - 2005)
John Lowe
(1906 - 1996)
Bibliography
¡39
Explanatory footnotes appear at the end of some chapters in this book.
Where abbreviations are used, these refer to the following sources:
ВРА
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Britten-Pears Archive
BBCWA
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BBC Written Archive
CCA
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Coventry Cathedral Archive
CBSOA
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Archives
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