"Happy were he" - Benjamin Britten and the "Gloriana" story, Robert Hewison; the creative evolution of "Gloriana", Philip Reed; Britten's major set-back? - aspects of the first critical response to "Gloriana", Antonia Malloy; the paradox of "Gloriana" - simple and difficult, Donald Mitchell; the number principle and dramatic momentum in "Gloriana", Peter Evans.
Go for [this fine Argo recording], and if you're really serious,
get hold of the new monograph on the opera published by the Boydell
Press in association with the Britten-Pears Library, a series of
essays that tells you everything you need to know about but didn't
quite know whom to ask. It costs £25 and it's worth every penny.
RODNEY MILNES, RECORD REVIEW A rounded critical and historical
study...launches what promises to be an indispensable resource for
future Britten studies.
*ARNOLD WHITTALL, MUSIC and LETTERS*
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