“... have unforehearable consequences until they reached their culmination in the extreme structure of Benjamin Britten’s Third Cello Suite, whose nine movements don’t disclose their four themes until the end. Dr Hopkins almost confines the relevance of our century to music hall and film; the end of the ‘metronome’ movement from the Eighth, for ...”

“... end.Peter Hill has adopted for this excellent book a somewhat different strategy from those of the Britten and Bartok Companions in the same series, where the rule is, roughly, one essay per major work. He has divided the book into two more or less equal parts separated by a shorter central ‘interlude’. The first part contains a general introduction to the ...”