Absolute Modernity
Paul Driver, 26 September 1991
Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life
by Jean-Michel Nectoux, translated by Roger Nichols.
Cambridge, 646 pp., £45, April 1991,0 521 23524 3 Show More
by Jean-Michel Nectoux, translated by Roger Nichols.
Cambridge, 646 pp., £45, April 1991,
Pierre Boulez
by Dominique Jameux, translated by Susan Bradshaw.
Faber, 422 pp., £25, March 1991,9780571137442 Show More
by Dominique Jameux, translated by Susan Bradshaw.
Faber, 422 pp., £25, March 1991,
Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship
by Pierre Boulez, translated by Stephen Walsh.
Oxford, 316 pp., £40, August 1991,0 19 311210 8 Show More
by Pierre Boulez, translated by Stephen Walsh.
Oxford, 316 pp., £40, August 1991,
“... biography shades into and out of musical explanation, with heavier-duty exegesis always to look forward to in the second part of the volume. Nectoux’s organisation of material is not dissimilar, but more satisfying: a vivid and copious chronological narrative constantly subject to essay-length interpolations on pertinent musicological topics. Both books ... ”