Paul Driver

Paul Driver writes about music for the Sunday Times.

In the LRB Archive:

• A, E♭, C, B: Robert Schumann · 21 February 2008

  • Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen
  • The Cambridge Companion to Schumann edited by Beate Perrey
  • Schumann’s Late Style by Laura Tunbridge

• Happy Man: Stravinsky · 8 February 2007

  • Stravinsky: The Second Exile – France and America 1934-71 by Stephen Walsh
  • Down a Path of Wonder: Memoirs of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Other Cultural Figures by Robert Craft

• The Faster the Better: Anatomising Mendelssohn · 3 February 2005

  • Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by Larry Todd

• Grand Old Sod: William Walton · 12 December 2002

  • The Selected Letters of William Walton edited by Malcolm Hayes
  • William Walton: Muse of Fire by Stephen Lloyd
  • William Walton, the Romantic Loner: A Centenary Portrait Album by Humphrey Burton and Maureen Murray

• Born in a Land where Yoghurt Rules the Roost on Sibelius · 26 November 1998

  • Sibelius. Vol. III: 1914-57 by Erik Tawaststjerna, edited by Robert Layton

• Haley’s Comet · 6 February 1997

  • The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 by Humphrey Carpenter

• Touching the music · 4 January 1996

  • Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship by Robert Craft

• Coming out top · 8 September 1994

  • The Bartók Companion edited by Malcolm Gillies

• Upstaging · 19 August 1993

  • Shining Brow by Paul Muldoon

• Even more immortal · 8 April 1993

  • Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards by Gerhard von Breuning, edited by Maynard Solomon, translated by Henry Mins and Maynard Solomon
  • Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process by Lewis Lockwood

• Chancer · 7 January 1993

  • The Roaring Silence: John Cage, A Life by David Revill

• Absolute Modernity · 26 September 1991

  • Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life by Jean-Michel Nectoux, translated by Roger Nichols
  • Pierre Boulez by Dominique Jameux, translated by Susan Bradshaw
  • Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship by Pierre Boulez, translated by Stephen Walsh

• Boulez in progress · 25 June 1987

  • Orientation by Pierre Boulez, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, translated by Martin Cooper

• Liza Jarrett’s Hard Life · 4 December 1986

  • The Death of the Body by C.K. Stead
  • Kramer’s Goats by Rudolf Nassauer
  • Mefisto by John Banville
  • The Century’s Daughter by Pat Barker
  • Love Unknown by A.N. Wilson

• Papers · 9 October 1986

  • The Beethoven Sketchbook: History, Reconstruction, Inventory by Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, edited by Douglas Johnson

• We were the Lambert boys · 22 May 1986

  • The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Andrew Motion

• ‘Stravinsky’ · 23 January 1986

  • Dearest Bubushkin: Selected Letters and Diaries of Vera and Igor Stravinsky edited by Robert Craft
  • Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Vol. III edited by Robert Craft

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