 
Havergal Brian on Music - Volume Two: European and American Music in his Time
Malcolm MacDonald, editor
ISBN: 978-0-90768-948-5
Hardback
Number of pages: 460
Chapters: 10
© 2009 The Estate of Havergal Brian / Malcolm MacDonald
Reviewer: Patric Standford
Review of Havergal Brian on Music - Volume Two: European and American Music in his Time published on 2 November 2010
Introduction: Brian the Contemporary
Editorial Notes
Acknowledgements
One: Fundamental Principles:
[The Sanity of Spring Lambs] (1923)
[Emotion in Modern Music] (1930)
Fundamental Principles (1935)
Beliefs and Deceits (1936)
When and What is New (1936)
Musical Manifestoes (1938)
Two: Strauss and Mahler:
Richard Strauss:
Hallé Concerts: 'Ein Heldenleben' and 'Eroica' (1907)
Richard Strauss (1910)
[Richard Strauss conducts Strauss and Mozart] (1910)
Richard Strauss and the 'Alpine Symphony' (1923)
Die Frau ohne Schatten (1931)
The Richard Strauss Festival (1936)
[Strauss conducts the Dresden Orchestra] (1937)
Gianni Schicchi and Salome (1937)
Operatic Broadcasts (1938)
Gustav Mahler:
Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony: The Symphony of a Thousand (1930)
Mahler's Eighth Symphony (1930)
The Mahler Revival (1930)
Mahler's Ninth Symphony (1934)
[Mahler and Schoenberg] (1934)
Gustav Mahler (1946)
[Letter to Sir Adrian Boult] (1947)
Three: Schoenberg and Berg:
Schoenberg:
A Schönberg Biography (1925)
Arnold Schönberg (1927)
Still as Death! (1927)
Schönberg: Triumph at the BBC National Concerts (1928)
Schönberg in Person (1928)
Schönberg's Pelleas (1931)
Arnold Schönberg: An Appreciation (1931)
[Schönberg conducts his Variations for Orchestra] (1933)
Schönberg the Teacher (1934)
Arnold Schönberg (1937)
Arnold Schönberg's Violin Concerto (1940)
Schönberg's Fourth String Quartet (1941)
Alban Berg:
[Wozzeck] (1934)
Berg the Musician (1936)
Berg and Wozzeck (1936)
The Berg Violin Concerto (1939)
Four: Busoni, Respighi, Hindemith
Ferruccio Busoni:
[Busoni on the Radio] (1932)
[Reflections on Dent's Busoni] (1933)
Busoni's Piano Concerto (1934)
[Busoni, Mahler and Boult] (1934)
Busoni's Letters (1938)
Busoni and Bax (1939)
Ottorino Respighi:
[Respighi and Bach] (1933)
[Miniature Scores by Respighi and Pizzetti] (1934)
'The Sunken Bell' (1935)
Ottorino Respighi (1936)
Paul Hindemith:
Germany's New Star (1923)
'Das Unaufhörliche (1933)
[Thoughts on Hindemith] (1934)
Mathis der Maler (1939)
Hindemith the Teacher (1939)
Five: Dohnányi and Bartók
Ernö Dohnányi:
Dohnányi and the Pengoes (1927)
Ernst von Dohnányi (1927)
The Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (1928)
Béla Bartók:
Béla Bartók (1927)
Béla Bartók (1929)
Bartók the Scholar (1931)
Six: Nordic Music:
[Edvard Grieg] (1932)
Danish Music (1936)
Yrjö Kilpinen (1935)
Sibelius:
Royal Philharmonic Society (1931)
[The Sibelius Boom] (1934)
[Sibelius in Performance] (1934)
Jean Sibelius (1935)
[Sibelius' Third Symphony] (1937)
Sibelius and Brahms (1938)
Seven: French Composers:
A French Concert. César Géoso, Composer
Un cercle français (1938)
Achille-Claude Debussy:
The Theories of Claude Debussy (1929)
[A Debussy Biography] (1933)
Debussy (1937)
Debussy Encore! (1937)
André Messager: 1853-1929 (1929)
[Death of Alfred Bruneau] (1932)
Paul Dukas:
[Dukas' Symphony in C major] (1933)
Paul Dukas: the Man (1935)
Paul Dukas and his Works (1935)
Paul Dukas' 'La Péri' (1935)
Albert Roussel (1937)
Maurice Ravel:
[A Ravel Concert - Twice] (1928, 1929)
Maurice Joseph Ravel (1938)
Maurice Ravel (1939)
[Women Composers in France] (1936)
Eight: A Russian Group
Alexander Glazounoff, 1865-1936 (1936)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1930)
[Rachmaninov's Recollections] (1934)
Medtner and Prokofiev:
Nikolai Medtner (1928)
Sergei Prokofiev (1931)
Igor Stravinsky:
'Les Noces' (1929)
Stravinsky at the BBC Concert (1929)
[The Rite of Spring] (1929)
Two New Stravinsky Works (1931)
Stravinsky's Chronicles (1936)
Shostakovich:
[Recent Soviet Music] (1934)
Dmitri Shostakovitch (1936)
Nine: Miscellany
[D'Albert and Popularity] (1932)
[Ernest Bloch] (1934)
Appreciation: and after (1937)
August Bungert (1937)
Contemporary Music: Reviews and Notices:
Modern Chamber Concert (1927)
Contemporary Chamber Music (1928)
The Promenades (1930)
64th Festival of German Music (1934)
Contemporary Music Festival (1938)
[Falla and Stravinsky] (1931)
[Arthur Honegger] (1934)
[Janácek's Sinfonietta] (1928 and 1933)
Some Works by Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Wilhelm Kienzl: Composer and Critic (1937)
[Korngold, Bittner, Strauss and the Rights of Dead Composers] (1931)
Franz Lehar's 'Friederike' (1929)
Emanuel Moór: Musician and Inventor (1931)
[Puccini and Italian Opera] (1933)
[Max Reger] (1932)
Othmar Schoeck (1934)
[Schoeck again] (1934)
[Franz Schreker and the State] (1934)
[The Suppression of Music] (1934)
Death of Franz Schreker (1934)
The Mazurkas of Szymanowski (1932)
Siegfried Wagner (1930)
Ten: The New World
[America the Future?] (1932)
Music in Paris (1929)
Edgar Varèse (1939)
[The American Pedagogue] (1932)
[An American Song] (1932)
[Steam Devils, and Other Americans] (1933)
J P Sousa:
Sousa the March King (1930)
John Philip Sousa (1932)
Victor Herbert (1938)
America Aggressive (1936)
'Composers with Tin Cups' (1937)
Composers in America (1938)
Index to Volume 2
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