Born in a Land where Yoghurt Rules the Roost
Paul Driver: Sibelius, 26 November 1998
Sibelius. Vol. III: 1914-57
by Erik Tawaststjerna, edited by Robert Layton.
Faber, 384 pp., £30, January 1997,0 571 19085 5 Show More
by Erik Tawaststjerna, edited by Robert Layton.
Faber, 384 pp., £30, January 1997,
“... in the diary that he kept for much of the second half of his life and on which his biographer Erik Tawaststjerna relies heavily. A few days earlier, a Schoenberg song had made a ‘deep impression’ on him and he had found the Op. 9 Chamber Symphony ‘a legitimate and valid way of looking at things ... But it is certainly painful to listen to. A ... ”
