Contents
These articles all derive from the Havergal
Brian Society Newsletter, those marked * do not
appear on this website
Foreword
Preface
Life and personality
Havergal Brian - as I knew him - Harold
Truscott
* A voice from the past - Bertram B. Walker
Havergal Brian and Elgar - Philip Scowcroft
* "Dear Crusoe . . . always your Freitag": the Brian letters at McMaster
University - Malcolm MacDonald
* Friendship with Havergal Brian - Walter Allum
* Aspects of Brian - Reginald Nettel (with an excursus by Godfrey Berry and comments by
Malcolm MacDonald, John Aldridge, Robert Timlin and Godfrey Berry)
Havergal Brians productive discontinuity - John Pickard (with a comment by Martyn
Becker)
* Havergal Brian talking to Robert Simpson and Jeffrey Anderson
Symphonies
* Havergal Brians letter to Herbert Thompson:
some implications - Malcolm MacDonald
The Gothic: music and meaning - Malcolm MacDonald (with a comment by Larry Alexander)
* The Gothic
revisited - Christopher J. Kettle
* Beethovens Ninth Symphony in relation to Brians First - Paul
Rapoport
* Robert Simpson in conversation with Stephen Johnson
Havergal Brians Second Symphony - Graham Saxby
Brians Third Symphony - Martyn Becker
Havergal Brians Sinfonia Tragica - Martin OLeary
* Thoughts on Havergal Brians Seventh Symphony - Harold Truscott
* Brian and Mahler: four symphonies in comparison - Martin OLeary
* Havergal Brians Thirteenth Symphony - not unlucky 13! - Tim Shuker
* Havergal Brians Fourteenth Symphony - an alternative view - Rodney Stephen
Newton
* Preparing Brians scores for performance - Myer Fredman/Robert Simpson
* Arcadia v. Elysium: some thoughts on Symphony No. 27 - Barry Cronin
Some thoughts on the 30th - Rodney Stephen Newton
* Havergal Brian and the single-movement symphony - Harold Truscott
Miscellany
* Havergal Brians large-scale choral works
before 1914-- a preliminary investigation, Neil Starling (with comments on Psalm 23 by
Larry Alexander and Malcolm MacDonald)
* Cleopatras Librettist - Reginald Nettel
* Havergal Brian and The Tigers - Granville Bantock
Let the Roar of the Tigers be Heard in the Land . . . - Malcolm MacDonald
* Brians impatient Tigers - Martyn Becker
* Brians word-setting - Mike Smith
Havergal Brian and the bare 5th - Rodney Stephen Newton (with a comment by Ted
Heaton)
Havergal Brians solo piano music - Harold Truscott/Peter Hill
Havergal Brian and the percussion section: a broad survey - Rodney Stephen Newton
* Brian, Mahler, Shostakovitch and Schoenberg: some idle thoughts - Christopher J.
Kettle (with comments by Larry Alexander and Malcolm MacDonald)
The Brian revival - Robert Simpson
Catalogue of works
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