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“... three books which I would spontaneously turn into the subject of a single article. How Eisler and Henze hang together need hardly be explained: but ‘poles apart’ would be a misleading metaphor for them, on the one hand, and Cooke, on the other, for the North Pole and the South Pole have more in common. Amusingly enough, Eisler’s ambivalently beloved ...”

“... long neglected, turned out to be of particular interest in the 20th century (to Thomas Mann, Hans WernerHenze and Wole Soyinka, along with a good many others cited here). The Bacchae, in effect, came to replace the Iphigenia tragedies because of a new emphasis on the chaotic, orgiastic violence of the ...”

“... third movement), works in this way. The symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich, the concertos of Hans WernerHenze, the amazing early scores of Peter Maxwell Davies all depend on a deep-seated, structural irony. Davies’s orchestral Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s ‘In Nomine’ concludes with a passionately ...”

“... and in his Ischia-based friendship with the much younger and stylistically distant figure of Hans WernerHenze, but to understand the gnawing anxiety about his standing one has to remember that he began as the whitest of British white hopes. Being the youngest undergraduate at Oxford for centuries (though he did ...”

“... the underworld of the crypt, we ascended the hierarchical steps to hear music by Messiaen and Hans WernerHenze. The frisson was undeniable. Earlier this year I went back to visit the disused synagogue at 19 Princelet Street – a rather dilapidated building now owned by the Spitalfields Trust and leased out as a ...”