Conteúdo
- List of Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. 1936-45 'Oh but the unloved have had power'
- 1:Soviet Opera at B.B.C. Shostakowitch's 'Lady Macbeth' (1936)
- 2:Wireless Concerts lose Edward Clarke (1936)
- 3:BBC Programming: Holst, Vaughan Williams and Poulenc (1936)
- 4:'As You Like It' Walton's Music (1936)
- 5:American Impressions (?1940)
- 6:An English Composer Sees America (1940)
- 7:On Film Music (c. 1940-1)
- 8:England and the Folk-Art Problem
- 9:Au Revoir to the U.S.A. (1942)
- 10:On Behalf of Gustav Mahler (1942)
- 11:Statement to the Local Tribunal for the Registration of Conscientious Objectors (1942)
- 12:Appeal to the Appellate Tribunal (1942)
- 13:How a musical work originates (1942)
- 14:Conversation with Benjamin Britten (1944)
- 15:Speech to the International Arts Guild (c.1944)
- 16:Vienna (1945)
- 17:Peter Grimes (1945)
- 18:250th Anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell (1945)
- II. 1946-55 'This region of sin that you find you in, But are not of'
- 19:Sinfonia da Requiem (1946)
- 20:The Rape of Lucretia (1946)
- 21:The Artist and His Medium: Composer and Listener (1946)
- 22:An Opera is Planned (1947)
- 23:Frank Bridge and English Chamber Music (1947)
- 24:The Rape of Lucretia (1948)
- 25:Piano works by Frederic Chopin and Gabrial Faure (1949)
- 26:A New Centre for Music (1949)
- 27:UNESCO (1949)
- 28:Boyd Neel: The Story of an Orchestra (1950)
- 29:The Arts Council and Opera (1950)
- 30:Verdi - A Symposium (1951)
- 31:The Rape of Lucretia (?1951)
- 32:Dido and Aeneas (1951)
- 33:Freeman of Lowestoft (1951)
- 34:The Rise of English Opera (1951)
- 35:Arnold Schoenberg (1951)
- 36:Variations on a Critical Theme (1952)
- 37:Opera Diary: The Marriage of Figaro (1952)
- 38:Three Premieres (1954)
- 39:Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (1954)
- 40:The Physician's Folly (1955)
- 41:The Aldeburgh Festival (1955)
- III. 1956-65 'All a poet can do today is warn'
- 42:Britten's Method of Composing (1956)
- 43:British Culture Abroad (1956)
- 44:Britten and South East Asia (1956)
- 45:The Composer Speaks (1957)
- 46:To the Music Lovers of Japan (1957)
- 47:Dennis Brain 1921-1957 (1958)
- 48:Television and The Turn of the Screw (1959)
- 49:Paul Beck 1895-1958 (1959)
- 50:On Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1959)
- 51:On Realizing the Continuo in Purcell's Songs (1959)
- 52:Back to Britain with Britten (1959)
- 53:People Today: Benjamin Britten (1960)
- 54:A New Britten Opera (1960)
- 55:A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960)
- 56:Brighton Philarmonic Society (1960)
- 57:Discussion with Billy Budd (1960)
- 58:On Writing English Opera (1960)
- 59:Britten and Pears in Canada (1961)
- 60:Speech on Receiving Honorary Degree at Hull University (1962)
- 61:Freedom of Borough of Aldeburgh (1962)
- 62:Erwin Stein: Form and Performance (1962)
- 63:A Tribute to Wilfrid Owen (?1963)
- 64:Imogen Holst: An ABC of Music (1963)
- 65:British Composers in Interview: Benjamin Britten (1963)
- 66:The Artist - to the People (1963)
- 67:On Pravda, Art and Criticism (1963)
- 68:Address to Kesgrave Heath School, Ipswich (1963)
- 69:An Interview (1963)
- 70:Britten Looking Back (1963)
- 71:Francis Poulenc 1899-1963 (1964)
- 72:On Receiving the First Aspen Award (1964)
- 73:Musician of the Year (1964)
- 74:British Music in the World Today (1964)
- 75:Tribute to Michael Tippett (1965)
- 76:Tribute to Zoltan Kodaly (1965)
- 77:Tribute to Jean Sibelius (1965)
- 78:Sibelius (II) (1965)
- 79:Dreams (?1965)
- 80:A Composer in Russia (1965)
- IV. 1966-76 'My mind beats on'
- 81:Sir Arthur Bliss at 75 (1966)
- 82:Benjamin Britten talks to Edmund Tracey (1966)
- 83:Tribute to Dmitri Shostakovitch (1966)
- 84:Tribute to Zoltan Kodaly (1967)
- 85:An interview with Benjamin Britten (1967)
- 86:Britten and Pears (1967)
- 87:The Moral Responsibility of the Artist Toward his Fellow Man (1968)
- 88:Britten on Aldeburgh and the Future (1968)
- 89:On Receiving the Sonning Prize (1968)
- 90:Some Notes on Forster and Music (1969)
- 91:Mapreading (1969)
- 92:No Ivory Tower (1969)
- 93:Snape Maltings Fire (1969)
- 94:Idomeneo in Performance (1969)
- 95:Radcliffe Music Award (1969)
- 96:Money for the Maltings (1970)
- 97:Aaron Copland: Seventieth-Birthday Tribute (1970)
- 98:James Blades: Percussion Instruments and their History (1970)
- 99:Artist's Choice: Cecil Aronowitz (1970)
- 100:Therapy in Music For Handicapped Children (1971)
- 101:Anthony Gishford: Grand Opera (1972)
- 102:John Bird: Percy Grainger (1976)
- 103:Tribute to Paul Sacher (1976)
- V. Introductory Notes to Britten's Music
- VI. Introductory Notes to the Music of Other Composers