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Article: Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten.(Book Review)
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Britten, Voice & Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten. By Graham Johnson. (Guildhall Research Studies, 2.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003. [ix, 270 p. ISBN 0-7546-3872-3. $54.95.] Index, compact discs.
The contents of this book began as preconcert lectures for a series of recitals entitled Let the Florid Music Praise at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in November 2001, and were expanded by the author, Graham Johnson, for the present volume. The concert series was devised by Johnson, a renowned accompanist who is also Senior Professor of Accompaniment for the Guildhall, in order to immerse his student accompanists into the ...
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... ... consolatory, orchestral writing is clear and vivid (the excellent Britten Sinfonia here); Tom Wright's libretto is erudite and stimulating ... Jeffrey Skidmore's remarkable and expert young Academy of Vocal Music (diction so clear) to a packed house in Abbots Bromley ...
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