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The sources listed in Robin Holloway's book On Music: Essays and Diversions, are set out below.

The Spectator: ‘Robust masterpiece’, 19 Nov. 1988; ‘The great mutilator’, 28 Jan. 1989; ‘Unobtrusive conservative’, 25 March 1989; ‘La vie en rose’, 27 May 1989; ‘Russian jamboree’, 19 Aug. 1989; ‘Bach betrayed’, 23 Sept. 1989; ‘Gingerbread artistry’, 23–30 Dec. 1989; ‘Schubert’s songs recorded’, 10 March 1990 and 30 Dec. 2000; ‘Rott stopped’, 22 Sept. 1990; ‘Complex Oedipus’, 24 Nov. 1990; ‘Henze’s law’, 26 Jan. 1991; ‘Dutch treat’, 15 Feb. 1991; ‘Mozart: redundant genius’, 23 Nov. 1991; ‘Mengelberg’s St Matthew Passion, 25 April 1992; ‘Purcell’s diligent muse’, 24 Oct. 1992; ‘An original magpie’, 23 July 1994; ‘Fulfilling every desire’, 13 May 1995; ‘Best of British’, 18 Nov. 1995; ‘“Use your ears like a man”’, 20 Jan. 1996; ‘Batting for Bruckner’, 26 Oct. 1996; ‘Love abideth foremost’, 26 April 1997; ‘Love abideth foremost’, 26 April 1997; ‘A noble nature’, 20/27 Dec. 1997; ‘Remembering two composers’, 31 Jan. 1998; ‘Homage to Elgar’, 28 Feb. 1998; ‘Business as usual’, 25 July 1998; ‘Poulenc centennial’, 27 March 1999; ‘Celebrating Strauss’, 30 Oct. 1999; ‘Humanising Wagner’, 29 April 2000; ‘Shostakovich horrors’, 26 Aug. 2000; ‘Recovering from Schnittke’, 27 Jan. 2001; ‘Ravel’s struggles’, 26 May 2001; ‘Britten 25 years on’, 24 Nov. 2001; ‘hab’ Dank!’, 29 Dec. 2001; ‘Chabrier’s songs’, 26 Oct. 2002; ‘Oliver Knussen at 50’, 30 Nov. 2002

Tempo: ‘Stravinsky’s Self-Concealment’, 1974; ‘Two on Weill’, 1975, 1997; ‘Britten memorial piece’, 1977; ‘The complete Lulu’, 1979); ‘Adventures Underground’, 1980; ‘All in the Golden Afternoon’, 1981; ‘Reports from the U.S.’, 1981; ‘Stockhausen’s Inori’, 1982; ‘Debussy and the theatre’, 1983; ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’, 1992; ‘Thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Strauss’s death’, 1999; ‘Schoeck the evolutionary’, 2001

The Musical Times: ‘Sugar and spice’, Nov. 1993; ‘The Kraken Wakes’, Dec. 1994; ‘Master of hearts’, Aug. 1995; ‘Revival of the fittest’, Nov. 1996; ‘Smiling through’, Dec. 1996; ‘Customised goods’, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1997; ‘Howard’s way’, July 2000

Times Literary Supplement: ‘The search for a sound aesthetics’, 31 March – 6 April 1989; ‘A world of private meanings’, 23 Aug. 1991; ‘Splendid but silly’, 27 Sept. 1991; ‘Strange victory’, 13 Nov. 1992; ‘Stravinsky’s spiritual son’, 24 March 1995; ‘A colossal drive to create’, 8 May 1998

Cambridge Review: ‘Britten – The Sentimental Sublime’, 30 May 1964; ‘Lulu’, 2–4 June 1979

Music and Musicians: ‘Strauss’s last opera’, 26–8 June 1973; ‘The writings of Debussy’, 1978

London Review of Books: ‘Keller’s causes’, 3 August 1995; ‘Empathy’, 8 August 2002

The Listener: ‘The man and his toys’, 17/24 Dec. 1987

BBC Music Magazine: ‘Scriabin: the Poem of Ecstasy, March 1999

Observer: ‘An artist of interpretation’, 6 April 1986

Independent: ‘Beware the pitfalls of sincerity, 14 Oct. 1989

Programme Book for L.S.O. Gershwin Series (1987): ‘“But is it Art?” Gershwin in a classical context’

London Sinfonietta programme book: ‘Models of invention’, Oct. 1993

The Music of Alexander Goehr, ed. Bayan Northcott (London: Schott, 1980): ‘Towards a critiqueÑüthe music of Alexander Goehr

The Britten Companion, ed. Christopher Palmer (London: Faber, 1984): ‘The church parables (II): limits and renewals’

Twilight of the Gods, ed. Nicholas John (London: ENO/ROH Guide 31, 1985): ‘Motif, memory and meaning’

Parsifal, ed. Nicholas John (London: ENO/ROH Guide 34, 1986): ‘Experiencing music and imagery’

Richard Strauss: Elektra, ed. Derrick Puffett (Cambridge: CUP, 1989): ‘The orchestration of Elektra: a critical interpretation’

Richard Strauss: Salome, ed. Derrick Puffett (Cambridge: CUP, 1989): ‘Salome: art or kitsch?’

Haydn Studies, ed. Dean Sutcliffe (Cambridge: CUP, 1998): ‘Haydn: the musicians’ musician’

Janacék Studies, ed. Paul Wingfield (Cambridge: CUP, 1999): ‘Expressive sources and resources in Janacék’s musical language’

Nexus Institute Proceedings 29 (2001): ‘Some thoughts about Tristan’

 

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