On Mahler and Britten: Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday

Contents

• Part 1 On Mahler: Mahler and Viennese Modernism, Paul Banks
• Gustav Mahlers sprache, Herta Blaukopf
• Mahler and the BBC, Asa Briggs
• Gustav Mahler - memories and translations, Peter Franklin
• Mahler and the New York Philharmonic - the truth behind the legend, Henry-Louis de la Grange
• Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69, Eveline Nikkels
• Mahler on Stamps, Gilbert Kaplan
• Mahler and self-renewal, Colin Matthews
• in search of Mahler's childhood, David Matthews
• a new transition - pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Edward R. Reilly
• the song of the Earth - some personal thoughts, Peter Sculthorpe
• Mahler the factual, Erwin Stein
• Mahler and Pfitzner - a parallel development, John Williamson. Part 2 On Britten: from No to Nebuchadnezzar, Mervyn Cooke
• Britten and his fellow composers, David Drew
• a (Far Eastern) note on "Paul Bunyan", Somsak Ketukaenchan
• the key to the parade, Oliver Knussen
• notes on a theme from "Peter Grimes", Ludmila Kovnatskaya
• the making of Auden's "Hymn for St Cecilia's Day", Edward Mendelson
• Edinburgh diary 1968, Kathleen Mitchell
• towards a genealogy of "Death in Venice", Christopher Palmer
• Venice, 1954, Myfanwy Piper
• on the sketches for "Billy Budd", Philip Reed
• "Abraham and Isaac Revisited" - reflections on a theme and its inversion, Eric Roseberry
• not all the way to the tigers - Britten's "Death in Venice", Edward W. Said
• Donald Mitchell as publisher - a personal recollection, Peter du Sautoy
• writing and copying - a superficial survey of Benjamin Britten's music, Rosamund Strode
• along the knife-edge - the topic of transcendence in Britten's musical aesthetic, Arnold Whittall
• a bibliography of Donald Mitchell's writings, Maureen Buja.