Contents
- Foreword by Jeremy Sams, Preface by Roger Nichols,
- 1. Hector Berlioz - fantasy and fury,
- 2. ... and beyond ...,
- 3. Frederic Chopin - a difficult genius,
- 4. Charles Gounod,
- 5. Edouard Lalo,
- 6. Camille Saint-Saens,
- 7. Leo Delibes,
- 8. Jules Massenet - a man of pleasure,
- 9. Chabrier - selected letters,
- 10. Heap, heap, Hurrah! - a review,
- 11. The Angel of Laughter,
- 12. Gabriel Faure - Pelleas et Melisande,
- 13. Debussy - the reception of his music in Britain up to 1914,
- 14. Debussy as man and artist,
- 15. Debussy and Degas - beyond Impressionism,
- 16. Debussy, Ravel and an orchestra for the 20th century,
- 17. Debussy, d'Annunzio and Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien,
- 18. Pelleas et Melisande / L'Enfant et les sortileges,
- 19. Pelleas et Melisande - reviews by d'Indy, Dukas and Willy,
- 20. Who was Melisande?,
- 21. Pelleas et Melisande - interview with Irene Joachim,
- 22. Alberic Magnard,
- 23. Florent Schmitt,
- 24. Erik Satie,
- 25. The Trouble with Satie,
- 26. Parade - a mix of extraordinary talents,
- 27. Le Groupe des Six - 100 years on,
- 28. Reynaldo Hahn,
- 29. Raveliana - new insights,
- 30. Ravel and the 20th century,
- 31. Ravel and the Dance,
- 32. Ravel and Spain,
- 33. Ravel, Dreyfus and Sex,
- 34. Ravel and the critics,
- 35. The Chatelet Ballet Gala of 22 April 1912,
- 36. Music and Impressionism,
- 37. Jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky,
- 38. Arthur Honegger - Incantation to the fossils - a documentary,
- 39. Francis Poulenc, French ballet, and the pleasure principle,
- 40. Francis Poulenc - and the road to La Voix humaine,
- 41. Maurice Durufle,
- 42. Messiaen and the journey to a world beyond,
- 43. Messiaen - ornitheology and all that,
- 44. Messiaen at 70 - an interview,
- 45. Debussy and Messiaen,
- 46. Ravel and Messiaen - accords and discords,
- 47. Messiaen - Interview with Pierre Boulez,
- 48. Messiaen - Interview with Dame Gillian Weir,
- 49. Music in Paris in the 1940s,
- 50. Henri Dutilleux at 75 - Conversations,
- 51. Henri Dutilleux at nearly 90,
- 52. Henri Dutilleux - Obituary,
- 53. Pierre Boulez and Andre Schaeffner - a review,
- 54. Thirty years of IRCAM,
- 55. Adieu, Pierre Boulez - Obituary, Index