Most people think birds just go pi-pi-pi
James Fletcher, 4 April 1996
The Messiaen Companion
edited by Peter Hill.
Faber, 581 pp., £40, March 1995,0 571 17033 1 Show More
edited by Peter Hill.
Faber, 581 pp., £40, March 1995,
Olivier Messiaen: Music and Colour. Conversations with Claude Samuel
translated by Thomas Glasow.
Amadeus, 296 pp., $29.95, May 1994,0 931340 67 5 Show More
translated by Thomas Glasow.
Amadeus, 296 pp., $29.95, May 1994,
“... 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 ... ”
