A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF MODERN MUSIC

EDITOR Calum MacDonald

VOLUME 61 NO. 239 JANUARY 2007

2 ON CLAUDE VIVIER'S 'LONELY CHILD' Bob Gilmore

18 AN INTERVIEW WITH PERCY GRAINGER, I5 MAY 1946 James Michael Floyd

28 PROMETHEUS OR ICARUS? IDEA AND IDEOLOGY IN NONO'S 'AL GRAN SOLE CARICO D'AMORE' Raymond Fearn

41 BLACK OR BROWN? HEINRICH SUTERMEISTER IN APARTHEID'S WEB Chris Walton

FIRST PERFORMANCES

53 London, Royal Albert Hall: Proms 2006 Martin Anderson, Robert Stein, Rodney Lister, Malcolm Miller

59 Belgrade: Jon Gibson's 'Violet Fire' Donata Premeru

60 London, St Pancras Church: Francis Pott Jill Barlow

61 Cheltenham Festival 2006 Paul Conway

63 Edinburgh: Stuart MacRae's "The Assassin Tree' David Johnson

64 Lucerne Festival: Heinz Holliger Peter Palmer

65 London, Globe Theatre: 'Edges of Rome' Jill Barlow

66 Blonay Report: Contemporary String Quartets Leo Hepner

67 Further London reports Paul Conway, Jill Barlow

BOOK REVIEWS

71 Messiaen Robin Holloway

76 The John Adams Reader Robert Stein

CD REVIEWS

79 Richard Barrett's 'transmission' Evan Johnson

79 Lou Harrison and Eve Beglarian Rodney Lister

81 Mátyás Seiber Alan Gibbs

82 Julius Röntgen round-up Martin Anderson

86 Franz Waxman's 'Joshua' Bret Johnson

87 David Fanshawe Jill Barlow

88 "The Refined Ear' Evan Johnson

88 Diamond and Avshalomov Bret Johnson

90 Antheil Guy Rickards

90 Arnold Cooke sonatas Calum MacDonald

91 The songs of Kaprálová Peter Palmer

92 'Spirit of England' Calum MacDonald

94 NEWS SECTION

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