From Berlioz to Boulez / Roger Nichols ; foreword by Jeremy Sams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--France--History and criticism.

Music.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 397 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Kahn & Averill, 2022.

Summary:

"Awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government in 2006 for his services to French culture, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Roger Nichols invites the reader to accompany him on his journey through the century-and-a-half turbulent and fertile period in the history of French music from Berlioz to Boulez. In compiling his collection of articles, interviews, radio plays and talks, Nichols begins with Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and ends with his obituary of Pierre Boulez. Along the way, he includes in-depth studies of Debussy and Ravel, connecting the two by a comparison of their operatic masterpieces, Pelleas et Melisande and l'Enfant et les sortileges. Twenty other significant composers from this fascinating period come in for Nichols' hallmark combination of erudition and wit."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Foreword / by Jeremy Sams

Preface / by Roger Nichols

Hector Berlioz : fantasy and fury. [Hector Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique]

... and beyond ...

Frédéric Chopin : a difficult genius

Charles Gounod

Edouard Lalo

Camille Saint-Saëns

Léo Delibes

Jules Massenet : a man of pleasure

Emmanuel Chabrier. Chabrier : selected letters ; Heap, heap, hurrah! : a review ; The angel of laughter

Gabriel Fauré : Pelléas et Mélisande. [Maeterlinck and Pelléas in Paris] ; [Pelléas in London] ; [Pelléas and Fauré] ; [Pelléas and Koechlin] ; [Reactions to Pelléas] ; [Subsequent productions]

Claude Debussy. Debussy : the reception of his music in Britain up to 1914 ; Debussy as man and artist ; Debussy and Degas : beyond impressionism ; Debussy Ravel and an orchestra for the 20th century ; Debussy, d'Annunzio and Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien ; Pelléas et Mélisande / L'Enfant et les sortilèges ; Pelléas et Mélisande : reviews by d'Indy, Dukas and Willy ; Who was Mélisande? ; Pelléas et Mélisande : interview with Irène Joachim

Albéric Magnard

Florent Schmitt

Erik Satie

The trouble with Satie

Parade : a mix of extraordinary talents

Le Groupe des Six : 100 years on

Reynaldo Hahn

Maurice Ravel. Raveliana : new insights. [Ravel the teacher] ; [Ravel on the Franco-Spanish entente] ; [Ravel and Stravinsky] ; [Ravel on his piano music] ; [The housekeeper's tale] ; Ravel and the 20th century ; Ravel and the dance ; Ravel and Spain ; Ravel, Dreyfus and sex ; Ravel and the critics

The Châtelet Ballet Gala of 22 April 1912

Music and impressionism

Jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky

Arthur Honegger : incantation to the fossils, a documentary

Francis Poulenc, French ballet, and the pleasure principle

Francis Poulenc : and the road to La Voix humaine

Maurice Duruflé

Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen and the journey to a world beyond ; Messiaen : ornitheology and all that ; Messiaen at 70 : an interview ; Debussy and Messiaen ; Ravel and Messiaen : accords and discords ; Messiaen : interview with Pierre Boulez ; Messiaen : interview with Dame Gillian Weir

Music in Paris in the 1940s

Henri Dutilleux at 75 : conversations

Henri Dutilleux at nearly 90

Henri Dutilleux : obituary

Pierre Boulez and André Schaeffner : a review

Thirty years of IRCAM [1977-2007]. [History] ; [The founding of IRCAM] ; [The early years] ; [IRCAM and the outside world] ; [Past and future]

Adieu, Pierre Boulez : obituary.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

099575747X

9780995757479

OCLC:

1337923639

Publisher Number:

90102544003