On Mahler and Britten

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Donald Mitchell: A Chronology
• Marion Thorpe: Foreword
• Paul Banks: Mahler and Viennese Modernism-Herta Blaukopf: Gustav Mahlers Sprache
• Asa Briggs: Mahler and the BBC
• Peter Franklin: Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations
• Henry-Louis de la Grange: Mahler and the New York Philharmonic. The Truth Behind the Legend
• Gilbert Kaplan: Mahler on Stamps
• Colin Matthews: Mahler and Self-Renewal
• David Matthews: In Search of Mahler's Childhood
• Eveline Nikkels: Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69. A Symphony in Words
• Edward R. Reilly: A New Transition. Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninthe Symphony
• Peter Sculthorpe: The Song of the Earth. Some Personal Thoughts
• Erwin Stein: Mahler the Factual
• John Williamson: Mahler and Pfitzner. A Parallel Development
• Mervyn Cooke: From Nõ to Nebuchadnezzar
• David Drew: Britten and His Fellow Composers. Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday
• Peter Du Sautoy: Donald Mitchell as Publisher. A Personal Recollection
• Oliver Knussen: The Key to the Parade
• Ludmila Kovnatskaya: Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes
• Edward Mendelson: The Making of Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day
• Kathleen Mitchell: Edinburgh Diary 1968
• Christopher Palmer: Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice
• Myfanwy Piper: Venice, 1954
• Philip Reed: On the Sketches for Billy Budd
• Eric Roseberry: Abraham and Isaac Revisited. Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion
• Edward W. Said: Not All the Way to the Tigers. Britten's Death in Venice
• Somsak Ketukaenchan: A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan
• Rosamund Strode: Writing and Copying. A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music
• Arnold Whittall: Along the Knife-Edge. The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's Musical Aesthetic
• Maureen Buja: A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945-1995
• Notes on the Contributors
• Jill Burrows: Index