From Berlioz to Boulez

Contents

• Foreword by Jeremy Sams, Preface by Roger Nichols,
• 1. Hector Berlioz - fantasy and fury,
• 2. ... and beyond ...,
• 3. Frederic Chopin - a difficult genius,
• 4. Charles Gounod,
• 5. Edouard Lalo,
• 6. Camille Saint-Saens,
• 7. Leo Delibes,
• 8. Jules Massenet - a man of pleasure,
• 9. Chabrier - selected letters,
• 10. Heap, heap, Hurrah! - a review,
• 11. The Angel of Laughter,
• 12. Gabriel Faure - Pelleas et Melisande,
• 13. Debussy - the reception of his music in Britain up to 1914,
• 14. Debussy as man and artist,
• 15. Debussy and Degas - beyond Impressionism,
• 16. Debussy, Ravel and an orchestra for the 20th century,
• 17. Debussy, d'Annunzio and Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien,
• 18. Pelleas et Melisande / L'Enfant et les sortileges,
• 19. Pelleas et Melisande - reviews by d'Indy, Dukas and Willy,
• 20. Who was Melisande?,
• 21. Pelleas et Melisande - interview with Irene Joachim,
• 22. Alberic Magnard,
• 23. Florent Schmitt,
• 24. Erik Satie,
• 25. The Trouble with Satie,
• 26. Parade - a mix of extraordinary talents,
• 27. Le Groupe des Six - 100 years on,
• 28. Reynaldo Hahn,
• 29. Raveliana - new insights,
• 30. Ravel and the 20th century,
• 31. Ravel and the Dance,
• 32. Ravel and Spain,
• 33. Ravel, Dreyfus and Sex,
• 34. Ravel and the critics,
• 35. The Chatelet Ballet Gala of 22 April 1912,
• 36. Music and Impressionism,
• 37. Jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky,
• 38. Arthur Honegger - Incantation to the fossils - a documentary,
• 39. Francis Poulenc, French ballet, and the pleasure principle,
• 40. Francis Poulenc - and the road to La Voix humaine,
• 41. Maurice Durufle,
• 42. Messiaen and the journey to a world beyond,
• 43. Messiaen - ornitheology and all that,
• 44. Messiaen at 70 - an interview,
• 45. Debussy and Messiaen,
• 46. Ravel and Messiaen - accords and discords,
• 47. Messiaen - Interview with Pierre Boulez,
• 48. Messiaen - Interview with Dame Gillian Weir,
• 49. Music in Paris in the 1940s,
• 50. Henri Dutilleux at 75 - Conversations,
• 51. Henri Dutilleux at nearly 90,
• 52. Henri Dutilleux - Obituary,
• 53. Pierre Boulez and Andre Schaeffner - a review,
• 54. Thirty years of IRCAM,
• 55. Adieu, Pierre Boulez - Obituary, Index