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From the Winter 2008 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Arnold Whittall: ‘ “A play of pure forces”? Elliott Carter’s opera in context’

Caroline Potter: ‘Unreliable machines: an interview with Kenneth Hesketh’

Nigel Simeone: ‘Messiaen, Koussevitsky and the USA’

Deborah Mawer: ‘Positioning Milhaud’s late chamber music: compositional “full circle”?’

Stephanus Muller: ‘Arnold van Wyk’s hard, stony, flinty path, or making things beautiful in apartheid South Africa’

Mary Cyr: ‘Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: myth or marvel? seeking the composer’s individuality’

Reviews

by Peter Phillips, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall, Peter Williams and David Wright of:

Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke & Donald Mitchell, edd.: Letters from a life: the selected letters of Benjamin Britten, volume four 1952–1957
Christopher Grogan, ed.: Imogen Holst: a life in music
David Manning, ed.: Vaughan Williams on music
Hugh Cobbe, ed.: Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895–1958
Edward Venn: The music of Hugh Wood
George Odam, ed.: Landscapes of the mind: the music of John McCabe
Leo Black: Edmund Rubbra: symphonist
Adrian Wright: The innumerable dance: the life and work of William Alwyn
Suzanne Cole: Thomas Tallis and his music in Victorian England
Stephanie D. Vial: The art of musical phrasing in the eighteenth century: punctuating the Classical period
Danuta Mirka & Kofi Agawu, edd.: Communication in eighteenth-century music

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