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New volume of letters between Finzi and Ferguson

(August 2001)

A new collection of letters between the composers Howard Ferguson and Gerald Finzi, of great importance in providing artistic context to mid-20th century British music and particularly the revival of interest in English song, has just been published by Boydell and Brewer. The volume was edited by Howard Ferguson before his death, and by Michael Hurd, a distinguished expert in this field.

The letters that passed, on an almost daily basis, between Ferguson and Finzi provide not only a fascinating commentary on the British musical scene of the period 1926-1956, but also what amounts to a unique dual-biography of two remarkable, though very different personalities. Their lives, their loves, their enthusiasms and their prejudices are laid bare with a rare degree of candour, so that we learn not only what it was like to be witness to an art that was enjoying an unprecedented explosion of creative vitality, but also how they came to explore and consolidate their own exceptional talents.

Biographical background narratives provide links that make clear what intimate correspondents inevitably take for granted, and explanations are given for references that the passage of time has made obscure. Their lives are thus revealed in all their diversity - tragedy and comedy, achievement and frustration, justifiable pride and unreasoning prejudice playing equal parts in this absorbing tale of two outstanding musical personalities in the twentieth century.

Published by Boydell and Brewer, Suffolk, UK, July 2001
ISBN 0 85115 823 4, 328pp, £40.00/$75.00

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