Routledge

Routledge

English

"This collection provides an invaluable insight into Sorabji and Warlock's early musical careers, but also a fascinating account of their wider socio-cultural world which is so very different to today's new music world. In the course of the correspondence Sorabji begins composing and performing for the first time and it is thrilling to hear his thoughts on the works which began his long career. Works which seem to have arrived from nowhere but which formed the basis for much that followed. This is invaluable reading." Paul Jackson - British Music Society ‘This paperback is an object-lesson in how to present a correspondence when only one side of the exchange survives in the archive. Unfortunately, Sorabji failed to preserve the letters written to him by Philip Heseltine, so we only have his side of the correspondence, but one of the triumphs of this collection is that the letters are placed in context by a remarkably thorough scholarly infrastructure documenting Heseltine’s activities at the time and deducing what he might have contributed. Sorabji writes at some length and, despite his sometimes wayward views, it is a vivid and compelling picture of the musical life of their circle at the time.’ Delius Society Journal 170, Autumn 2021