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books are paperback unless otherwise stated.
MUSIC
102. The Recordings of Edvard Grieg – A tradition captured by Robert Matthew-Walker
Published, in 1993, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Grieg’s birth, this is the enthralling story of the composer’s recordings, on cylinders, discs and piano-rolls, made from 1893 to 1905 – an important musical legacy which has remained virtually unknown. The book includes a complete ‘discography’, including recordings made by artists who knew the composer personally.
ISBN 1 898343 02 0 £6.95
103 Alun Hoddinott on Record – A Composer and the Gramophone by Robert Matthew-Walker
“This is a delightful book which is invaluable for music-lovers, record-collectors, students, librarians, and followers of contemporary music … It is not merely a well-researched compilation of facts and numbers but also a very good read.” – Musical Opinion.
ISBN 1 898343 01 2 £5.95
104 Havergal Brian: Reminiscences and Observations by Robert Matthew-Walker
Published to mark the 21st Anniversary of The Havergal Brian Society of Great Britain, this book tells the story of the friendship between the author and the remarkable English composer, Havergal Brian (1876-1972), who wrote 32 symphonies. The book includes a detailed analysis of the first movement of Brian’s mighty ‘Gothic’ Symphony.
“A very readable little book: not just for aficionados, though even they will find some new information here.” — BBC Music Magazine.
ISBN 1 898343 04 7 £9.95
105 Cincinnati Interludes – a conductor and his audience by Sir Eugène Goossens, edited by Robert Matthew-Walker
Forgotten for fifty years, these twenty essays were written for the Jubilee Season of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 1944-5. Now published to mark the centennial of the orchestra, the book contains a preface by Lord Menuhin OM, a biographical outline of Sir Eugène Goossens, a complete annotated discography of his recordings with the orchestra, and details of the Sir Eugène Goossens Archive.
ISBN 1 898343 05 5 £7.95
106 The Music of Vyacheslav Artyomov – an introduction by Robert Matthew-Walker
Vyacheslav Artyomov, born in Moscow in 1940, is widely regarded as one of the most important Russian composers of his generation. This pioneering study has been written with the enquiring music-lover, rather than the specialist, in mind.
ISBN 1 898343 06 3 £4.95
NEW BOOKS
107 Edvard Grieg’s Bergliot – a forgotten masterpiece by Beryl Foster (published in association with The Grieg Society of Great Britain and The Figment Group.)
A detailed analysis of a neglected melodrama composed by Grieg in 1871, with musical illustrations and a new English translation of the text by the author, who is a singer and musicologist specialising in Norwegian art-songs.
ISBN 1 898343 08 X £3.50
108 Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) – analytical aspects - an Essay by Robert Matthew-Walker
This ground-breaking essay is here published in full for the first time. It falls into three parts: a general outline of the author’s findings; a detailed study of Mahler’s late structural use of tonality and its parallel application to what the author calls Mahler’s cross-structuralisation of his chosen texts; and a conclusion implying how Mahler’s use of tonality in this work could ultimately be shown to relate to the composer’s later symphonic masterpieces and the far-reaching implications for the expansion of twentieth-century music, which Mahler himself did not live to hear.
ISBN 1 898343 09 8 £3.50
Newmill Books
701 Cornwall – a Look Back: a scrapbook of memories by Jean Bellamy
A fascinating glimpse of a bygone age, including reminiscences from the author’s childhood, illustrated with old photographs, many of them from the 1930s.
ISBN 1 898343 07 1 £7.50