Music and Beyond
Hans Keller, 21 October 1982
Hanns Eisler: Political Musician
by Albrecht Betz, translated by Bill Hopkins.
Cambridge, 326 pp., £25, June 1982,0 521 24022 0 Show More
by Albrecht Betz, translated by Bill Hopkins.
Cambridge, 326 pp., £25, June 1982,
Music and Political: Collected Writings 1953-81
by Hans Werner Henze, translated by Peter Labanyi.
Faber, 286 pp., £15, July 1982,0 571 11719 8 Show More
by Hans Werner Henze, translated by Peter Labanyi.
Faber, 286 pp., £15, July 1982,
Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music
by Deryck Cooke and Bryan Magee.
Faber, 226 pp., £12.50, July 1982,0 571 11795 3 Show More
by Deryck Cooke and Bryan Magee.
Faber, 226 pp., £12.50, July 1982,
“... wordless work like the String Trio define with quasi-mathematical precision. It is, incidentally, Peter Labanyi, not Bill Hopkins, who rightly translates ‘committed’; Bill Hopkins turns it into the foreign-sounding ‘engaged’. And while both translations seem competent, Labanyi’s is the more natural. But then ... ”
