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,
“... whose orchestral Rituel in memoriam Maderna (1974) rescinds ‘total serialism’ and plumps (as Dominique Jameux explains) for a seven-note mode. To set beside this image of ‘Fauré the progressive’ (to adapt another Schoenbergian phrase), there is the familiar, beloved Fauré of simple charm and elegance and wit: the composer of the Dolly ... ”
