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The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze – Jonathan Taylor
Gesamtkunstwerk in the Head: The Symphonies of Hans Werner Henze For all its claims to absolute music, the symphony has always been a hybrid – maybe even omnivorous – musical genre, constantly renewing itself by fusing with other genres and art-forms. Haydn frequently employs folk songs in his symphonies, like many composers after him; Mozart’s symphonies…
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Anthony Owen – Three Poems
Sunrise over Israel Sunrise with its loose threadshurt my eyes oh yellow starYou set last night head separated with Jupiter her deep scar visible onlyto those who looked hardthrough the looking glass. I can see new houses emerge from ruinsIt looks like a bomb site but like moonscape GazaNot otherworldly as headphones disconnected with a…
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Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos – Alan Baker
REVIEW: Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos Alan Baker In Secret: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Enitharmon Press) A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Bloodaxe Books) Yiannis Ritsos Among His Contemporaries, ed. Marjorie Chambers (Colenso Books) Monochords by Yiannis Ritsos, tr. Paul Merchant, linocuts by Chiara Ambrosio (Prototype…