Contents

• 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