My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears by Nicholas Clar

by Nicholas Clar

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The Nile on eBay My Beloved Man by Nicholas Clark, Jude Brimmer, Vicki Stroeher It s a life of the two of us. The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description It s a life of the two of us. The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants. From the Foreword by FIONA SHAWThis volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten s works, more significant is the insight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentiethcentury, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the Aldeburgh corpses , art collecting, gossip, everyday life in an English country house, the development of the Aldeburgh Festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics. Above all, when read together, Britten and Pears s le

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781783271085
• Condition: Fine

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