HB: Aspects of Havergal Brian

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Jürgen Schaarwächter
Ashgate, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 424 pages
This volume brings together a wide selection of articles published in the Havergal Brian Society Newsletter which include interviews, personal recollections of Brian and several detailed analyses of some of his works, generously illustrated with music examples. The book concludes with a recently updated catalogue of works.

Contents

Havergal Brian as I knew
5
A voice from
33
Friendship with Havergal Brian
53
Aspects of Brian With an excursus by Godfrey Berry
61
3
67
61
93
Havergal Brians letter to Herbert Thompson
127
The Gothic revisited
149
Some thoughts on the 30th
248
Havergal Brian and the singlemovement symphony
255
Havergal Brians largescale choral works before 1914
267
Cleopatras librettist
311
Havergal Brian and The Tigers
318
Let the Roar of the Tigers be Heard in
333
Brians impatient Tigers
339
Havergal Brian and the bare 5th With
349

Beethovens Ninth Symphony in relation to Brians
162
Brians Third Symphony
193
Havergal Brians Sinfonia Tragica
199
Thoughts on Havergal Brians Seventh Symphony
216
Brian and Mahler four symphonies in comparison
225
Havergal Brians Fourteenth Symphony
233
Preparing Brians scores for per
242
Havergal Brians solo piano music
355
Havergal Brian and the percussion section
381
Brian Mahler Shostakovitch and Schoenberg
390
The Brian revival
403
Index
413
233
416
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