Musical Times

FRANCO SCIANNAMEO recalls his association with the grand seigneur of twentieth-century Italian music THE NAME OF THE ITALIAN composer Giacinto Scelsi (born 1905 in La Spezia, died 1988 in Rome) still means little to audiences worldwide, despite the considerable...

Endangered species? MICHAEL FULLER A history of the oratorio, volume 4: the oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Howard E. Smither University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill & London, 2000); xxiv, 829pp; L59.95. ISBN 0 8078 2511...

The pilgrims progress, reviewed by Hubert Foss (MT, June 1951) THE first night of Vaughan Williams's `Pilgrim's Progress', on Thursday 26 April at Covent Garden was an occasion long to be remembered by those privileged to attend it. Here, unfolded visually...

The daughter of a Merseyside boilermaker, Rita Hunter rose to become one of the great Brunnhildes of the post-war era, most memorably in the famous ENO Ring conducted by Sir Reginald Goodall. After studies with Edwin Francis, she joined the chorus of...

See hear 1 Taking one small point from Anthony Gritten's article in the Spring MT, surely he must be right when he says that 'the act of following the score while listening actually affects, influences, and even changes the musical experience'? If any...

CHRIS TOP HER Fox explores the visionary oeuvre of a contemporary English emigre I HAVE A NUMBER of friends who enjoy the 'innocent ear' test where an unidentified recording is played and you are invited to come up with an identification and an aesthetic...

Review-article PETER PHILLIPS ponders the relationship between performance practice and a vast recorded legacy A century of recorded music: listening to musical history Timothy Day Yale UP (New Haven & London, 2000); x, 306pp; 20. ISBN 0 300 08442...

JOHN MILSOM reclaims for posterity three significant works by the seventeenth-century English master IT IS A GOOD MANY YEARS since we last had a major find in the world of post-Reformation English church music. Odd voice-- parts may occasionally come...