Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Sources
- 1 Earliest and Lifelong Russophilia
- 2 Britten and Shostakovich, 1934–63
- 3 Britten and Prokofiev
- 4 Britten and Stravinsky
- 5 Hospitality and Politics
- 6 Pushkin and Performance
- 7 Britten and Shostakovich Again: Dialogues of War and Death, 1963–76
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 Letter from Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
- 2 Interview with Alan Brooke Turner
- 3 Interview with Keith Grant
- 4 Interview with Lord Harewood
- 5 Interview with Victor Hochhauser
- 6 Interview with Lilian Hochhauser
- 7 Letter from Sir Charles Mackerras
- 8 Interview with Donald Mitchell
- 9 Interview with Sir John Morgan
- 10 Interview with Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- 11 Interview with Irina Shostakovich
- 12 Letter from Boris Tishchenko
- 13 Interview with Oleg Vinogradov
- 14 Interview with Galina Vishnevskaya
- 15 Letters from Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova
- 16 Letter from Vladislav Chernushenko
- 17 Britten's Volumes of Tchaikovsky's Complete Works
- Bibliography and Sources
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Sources
- 1 Earliest and Lifelong Russophilia
- 2 Britten and Shostakovich, 1934–63
- 3 Britten and Prokofiev
- 4 Britten and Stravinsky
- 5 Hospitality and Politics
- 6 Pushkin and Performance
- 7 Britten and Shostakovich Again: Dialogues of War and Death, 1963–76
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 Letter from Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
- 2 Interview with Alan Brooke Turner
- 3 Interview with Keith Grant
- 4 Interview with Lord Harewood
- 5 Interview with Victor Hochhauser
- 6 Interview with Lilian Hochhauser
- 7 Letter from Sir Charles Mackerras
- 8 Interview with Donald Mitchell
- 9 Interview with Sir John Morgan
- 10 Interview with Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- 11 Interview with Irina Shostakovich
- 12 Letter from Boris Tishchenko
- 13 Interview with Oleg Vinogradov
- 14 Interview with Galina Vishnevskaya
- 15 Letters from Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova
- 16 Letter from Vladislav Chernushenko
- 17 Britten's Volumes of Tchaikovsky's Complete Works
- Bibliography and Sources
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- Benjamin Britten and Russia , pp. 353 - 367Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016