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By 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.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Influence. --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E. --- Benjamin Britten. --- British composer. --- British composers. --- British music. --- contemporary classical composition. --- modern composers. --- music analysis. --- music history. --- musical influence. --- musical legacy. --- twentieth-century music.

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Knowing Britten is a vivid and insightful account of Steuart Bedford's long association with both Britten the man and his music The conductor and pianist Steuart Bedford (199-2021) could not remember a time when he did not know Benjamin Britten. His mother, Lesley Duff, sang with the English Opera Group in the premieres of The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herrring in the late 1940s, and the family was closely involved with Britten and Pears for many years. Following his music studies and time on the music staff at Glyndebourne, Bedford joined the English Opera Group, gradually becoming Britten's trusted surrogate conductor. As Britten's health began to fail, Before took on responsibility for the premiere of Death in Venice, including its US premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the dramatic cantata Phaedra among others.

Composers --- Bedford, Steuart --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Friends and associates. --- Benjamin Britten. --- Steuart Bedford. --- classical music. --- music career. --- music conductor. --- music history. --- music industry. --- music performances. --- music world. --- musical collaborations. --- musical insights. --- opera.

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Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborations with his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself.

Vocal music --- Music --- History and criticism. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E. --- Benjamin Britten. --- Britten's Vocal Works. --- Composer. --- Kate Kennedy. --- Librettists. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literature. --- Music History. --- Music and Literature. --- Music. --- Musical Analysis. --- Musicology. --- Poetry. --- Vocal Works. --- Words and Music.

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Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the "middlebrow," Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism and theatrical spectacle, even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.

Music --- Opera --- Modernism (Music) --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- 20th century music. --- aesthetic oppositions. --- aesthetics. --- audiences. --- benjamin britten. --- composers. --- consonance. --- critics. --- cultural hierarchies. --- great divide. --- historiography. --- lyricism. --- mass culture. --- mid century discussions. --- modernism. --- music history and criticism. --- music history. --- music. --- opera music. --- opera. --- prestige. --- shades of grey. --- theatrical spectacle. --- Philosophy and esthetics. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries)

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This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of twentieth-century politics. The remarkable relationship between Britten and Shostakovich is a central theme, but it also evaluates other key influences, particularly Britten's passion for Tchaikovsky, his more elusive fascination with Prokofiev, and his ambiguous attitude towards Stravinsky; and it places Britten's enduring friendships with Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya and Richter in the context of his musical output. The book also analyses Britten's responses to various Russian composers and musicians - why, for example, did he dislike Musorgsky? - and considers personal and political perceptions of Britten inthe Soviet Union. Finally, it assesses the wider question of Russian influence on Britten's works and in turn whether Britten's music had any influence on the younger generation of Russian composers,such as Alfred Schnittke. This study draws on Foreign Office and British Council files at the National Archives, published and unpublished material from the former Soviet Union, including the Shostakovich Family Archive, and oral history, in addition to the Britten-related archives. Benjamin Britten and Russia will appeal not only to Britten scholars and students but also to those interested in twentieth-century culture, history and politics more widely.

CAMERON PYKE is Deputy Master (External) at Dulwich College and part-time lecturer at the Centre of Russian Music, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Composers --- Music --- Compositeurs --- Musique --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Travel --- Soviet Union. --- Russland. --- Sowjetunion. --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E. --- Ber. ha-M. --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- ESSD --- FSSR --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyīt --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Ittiḥād-i Shūrav --- KhSHM --- PSRS --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Russia --- Russland --- Rusyah --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- Shūrav --- SNTL --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- Soi͡uz Radi͡ansʹkykh Sot͡sialistychnykh Respublik --- Soi͡uz Sovetskikh Sot͡sialisticheskikh Respublik --- Soi͡uz SSR --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- Sovetskiĭ Soi͡uz --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Soyuz SSR --- SRSR --- SSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- SSṚM --- SSSR --- Su-lien --- Szovjetuni --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- TSRS --- UdSSR --- Uni Soviet --- Uni Sovjet --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- Union soviétique --- Unione Sovietica --- URSS --- USSR --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- ZSRR --- ZSRS --- Związek Radziecki --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich --- Republik-Republik Kesatuan Soviet Sosialis --- Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik --- Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken --- Union der SSR --- Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques --- Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība --- SSṘM --- ZSSR --- Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika --- Soviet Union --- Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik --- Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ --- Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky --- Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï --- SSCB --- Союз Советских Социалистических Республик --- СССР --- 1923-25.12.1991 --- Rußland --- Krievija --- Federazione Russa --- RF --- Großrussland --- Großrußland --- Rossijskaja Imperija --- Russie --- Empire de Russie --- Russian Federation --- Federacja Rosyjska --- Rosja --- Rossija --- Rossijskaja Federacija --- Russische Föderation --- Russisches Reich --- РФ --- Российская Федерация --- Российская Империя --- Russische SFSR --- -1917 --- 25.12.1991 --- -Britten, Benjamin, --- Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik --- Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques --- Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība --- SSṘM --- Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika --- Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik --- Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ --- Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky --- Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï --- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical. --- Art History. --- Benjamin Britten. --- Biography. --- Chamber music. --- Choral. --- Composer. --- Conductor. --- Dmitri Shostakovich. --- History. --- Music history. --- Music. --- Opera. --- Orchestra. --- Pianist. --- Politics. --- Russia. --- Russian Politics. --- Tchaikovsky. --- Twentieth-Century.