TEMPSUMMER O'95' CONTENTS • NOTES AND NEWS STRAWINSKY'S "THE RAKE'S PROGRESS" : INTRODUCTION, SYNOPSIS AND ILLUSTRATIONS SOME REFLECTIONS ON OPERA AS A MEDIUM W. H. Auden "THE RAKE'S PROGRESS" Eric Walter White CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN SOUTH AFRICA Ernest Fleischmann MUSIC IN TURKEY George Weldon ISRAELI COMPOSERS Peter Gradenwitz A HISTORY OF ENGLISH OPERA Edward J. Dent BOOK GUIDE NUMBER QUARTERLY 20 TWO SHILLINGS Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.14, on 30 Sep 2021 at 09:02:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200050129 Outstanding now Records "HIS MASTERS VOICE oT^e c/ta/hn&lA. of Ccua/ity LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI JASCHA HEIFETZ and AND HIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIR WILLIAM WALTON Overture, " Hansel and Gretel " — Humperdinck conducting DB2I256 THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA PETER PEARS and BENJAMIN BRITTEN Violin Concerto — Walton - - DB2I257-9 "Old American Songs":— The Boatmen's HALINA STEFANSKA Dance; I bought me a cat; Long time ago: The Nocturne in C Sharp Minor; Mazurka in C Sharp Dodger; Simple gifts - - DA 7036-9 Minor — Chopin - - - - C4082 Auto Couplings only MENUHIN and LOUIS KENTNER VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES Sonata No. I in B Minor — bach - DB9607-8 GERALD MOORE at the Piano Auto Couplings only La Maja Dolorosa No. 3 and El Majo Discreto SCHNABEL (from " Coleccion de Tonadillas") — Granados Rhapsody No. 2 in G Minor — Brahms DB6504 DA 1976 THE GRAMOPHONE COMPANY LIMITED, HAYES, MIDDLESEX ARTHUR OLDHAM BORN IN 1926, ARTHUR OLDHAM has now entered upon the years of achievement. During the present Festival period three important new works have received their first performances, and three earlier works have recently been published. DIVERTIMENTO FIVE CHINESE LYRICS MY TRUEST TREASURE for String Orchestra for High Voice and Piano lOd. 4/- " A really outstanding partsong, a Full Score 30/- First performed by setting for S.A.T.B. of a poem by the Parts (each) 2/- Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten fourteenth century poet, Richard at the 1949 Aldeburgh Festival. Rolle. It has everything in it that one " a strong and effective piece " " proved immediately attractive by could demand . including drama, (Monthly Musical Record) their graceful melodic writing, sensi- tenderness, despair, triumph, brilliant " All five movements of the work tive harmonic scheme, and constant use of choral effect, in which disson- have a rich melodic character built on maintenance of a musical idiom apt ance plays an important part, etc. a sound foundation." to the shy translucency of the verses." Conductors must see this." (Derbyshire Advertiser) (The Times) (Musical Opinion) BOOSEY & HAWKES LTD 295 REGENT STREET, LONDON W.i. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.14, on 30 Sep 2021 at 09:02:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200050129.