British Music after Britten

By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth—century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.

This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018 surveys a cross—section of contemporary classical composition in the UK. The governing perspective is the impact of the life and work of Benjamin Britten (1913—1976) on British composers who, with ...