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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
The Music of Galina Ustvolskaya Ronald Weitzman
Recent Birtwistle discs Nicolas Hodges
Hugh Wood's Quartets Stephen Collisson
Knussen's Stravinsky on DG Michael Oliver
Zender's ‘Winterreise’, ‘Moonchild's Dream’ Peter Palmer
Tippett's Piano Sonatas Philip Thomas
Turnage on NMC Stephen Collisson
Quartet music from Italy John Warnaby
Alan Hovhaness Bret Johnson
Hermann Suter's ‘Le Laudi’ Peter Palmer
Music from Iceland Guy Rickards
Et cetera Martin Anderson
* The composer has recently confirmed these asterisked tempi as accurate.
1 John Donne's A Noctumall upon S. hides Day and George Herbert's The Flower.
1 See Stephen Walsh's programme notes to the Chilingirian recording.
2 Ibid.
1 Since completing this article, it has been possible to hear Changes (1992), for string quartet by the Milanese composer, Carlo Alessandro Landini, performed by the Arditti String Quartet at the 1994 Darmstadt Ferienkurse. The singlemovement work, lasting approximately 40 minutes, has a wide range of cultural associations, appears to encapsulate virtually every style of contemporary music, and provoked a lively discussion of ‘modern’ and ‘post-modern’ issues.
1 Cf. Footnote 11, ‘Music of fire and ice’, Tempo 181.
2 ITM 8–02. Cf. Tempo 181.
3 in Tempo 181.
4 in a letter to the present writer dated 8 September 1993.
5 recently issued by BIS.
6 This recording resurfaces in the soundtrack of the recent Jóna Finnsdóttir/Hilmar Oddsson film Tears of Stone, of which Leifs is the main subject (ITM 6-05). Hjalmar Helgi Ragnarsson selected the music (and composed several short episodes also) from works across the whole of Leifs' career, including early piano pieces, the Galdra Loftur Overture, (op.6, from Chandos CHAN 9180), an Icelandic Cantata (op.13) and the late Elegy for strings, op.53.