Havergal Brian on Music: Volume Two: European and American Music in his Time

This second volume of Brian's writings shows him to have been one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary music in the twentieth century.

In this second volume of selections from his journalism, written over four decades between 1907 and 1946, the maverick English composer Havergal Brian [1876-1972] directs his enquiring mind at the music being composed in France,Germany, Italy and elsewhere, while he and his British contemporaries were fighting to establish new music at home. Ri...