Robert Craft
Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)
From the Review
September 21, 2006: 'Stravinsky: the Second Exile' (letter)
May 23, 2002: The Perils of Mrs. Eliot
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius by Carole Seymour-Jones
May 6, 1999: Only Collect
The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings by E.M. Forster, edited by P.N. Furbank
February 18, 1999: Another Scipio (letter)
October 8, 1998: Stravinsky & Balanchine
May 28, 1998: Sunday Afternoon Live
New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923-1987 book, 21 conductors, 18 soloists. ten compact discs of digitally remastered recordings, with 144-page
September 25, 1997: On the 'Virge'
Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
October 31, 1996: Nights at the Opera
Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times by Peter Heyworth
June 20, 1996: His Ewe Lamb
Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman by Thekla Clark, Introduction by James Fenton
November 2, 1995: Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest
Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525–1855 by Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque by H. C. Robbins Landon
November 3, 1994: Words for Music Perhaps
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Libretti and other Dramatic Writings (1939–1973) by W.H. Auden, by Chester Kallman, edited by Edward Mendelson
January 13, 1994: Furtwängler & Toscanini (letter)
November 18, 1993: Love in a Cold Climate
'To My Best Friend': Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1876–1878) translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden, by Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden
Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (1885–1893) by David Brown
October 7, 1993: The Furtwängler Enigma
The Devil's Music Master: The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler by Sam H. Shirakawa
Trial of Strength: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Third Reich by Fred K. Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
December 17, 1992: 'Love in a Cold Climate' (letter)
November 19, 1992: Love in a Cold Climate
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson edited by Nigel Nicolson
October 22, 1992: Great Dane
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson
July 16, 1992: What's a Girl to Do? (letter)
April 9, 1992: Lagoon Tunes
Five Centuries of Music in Venice by H.C. Robbins Landon, by John Julius Norwich
October 24, 1991: Bali H'ai
Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja
A House in Bali by Colin McPhee
August 15, 1991: A Little Mozart Tour
Mozart: 'Prodigy of Nature' an exhibition at The Pierpont Morgan Library May 8–August 4, 1991
Zaubertöne, Mozart in Wien 1781–1791 1990–September 15, 1991 an exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna December 6,
January 17, 1991: Uncle Whiz
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen, edited by Nicholas Jenkins, Introduction by Richard Howard
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel by Harold Norse
W.H. Auden: 'The Map of All My Youth,' Early Works, Friends and Influences Auden Studies, Volume I edited by Katherine Bucknell, edited by Nicholas Jenkins
Auden's Apologies For Poetry by Lucy McDiarmid
September 27, 1990: The Comedian Of Horror
Gathering Evidence: A Memoir by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Histrionics: Three Plays by Thomas Bernhard. (A Party for Boris; Ritter, Dene, Voss; Histrionics), translated by Peter Jansen, by Kenneth Northcutt
The President and Eve of Retirement by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Gitta Honegger
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Correction by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Sophie Wilkins
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McLintock
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard, translated by David McClintock
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard, translated by Ewald Osers
May 31, 1990: Making Hay with Huxley
Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway
May 17, 1990: The Top of the World
November 23, 1989: Pipe Dreams
An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes From the Non-Christian World by Paul Bowles
A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
June 15, 1989: 'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
May 18, 1989: Einstein & the Jews (letter)
April 27, 1989: The Stravinsky Beat (letter)
April 13, 1989: An Affair of the Heart
February 16, 1989: Jews and Geniuses
December 22, 1988: The Motives of T.S. Eliot (letter)
August 18, 1988: 'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
June 16, 1988: Pulling No Punches
Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson edited by Tim Page, edited by Vanessa Weeks Page
March 31, 1988: Balanchine's Steps
George Balanchine: Ballet Master by Richard Buckle, in collaboration with John Taras
Balletmaster: A Dancer's View of George Balanchine by Moira Shearer
Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland, by Greg Lawrence
November 5, 1987: The Emperor of China
The Berg–Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters edited by Juliane Brand, edited by Christopher Hailey, edited by Donald Harris
Schoenberg and His Circle: A Viennese Portrait by Joan Allen Smith
July 16, 1987: Dickinson & Death (letter)
April 23, 1987: Amorous in Amherst
April 9, 1987: The Maestro on the Market
Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music by Joseph Horowitz
December 4, 1986: From a West-East Diary
April 24, 1986: Lives of the Poets
The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas edited by Paul Ferris
Journals 1939–1983 by Stephen Spender, edited by John Goldsmith
Night and Day edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hawtree, preface by Graham Greene
February 13, 1986: A New Year Roundup
Vidal in Venice by Gore Vidal, edited by George Armstrong, photographs by Tore Gill
Jean Cocteau and the French Scene edited and with a preface by Arthur King Peters
T.S. Eliot An anniversary issue of The Southern Review
Tchaikovsky's Ballets by Roland John Wiley
Arnold Schoenberg–Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents edited by Jelena Hahl-Koch, translated by John C. Crawford
November 7, 1985: Balanchine Variations
Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonia W. Bouis
Balanchine: A Biography by Bernard Taper
"But First a School": The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet by Jennifer Dunning
Portrait of Mr. B.: Photographs of George Balanchine with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein
Balanchine's 'Mozartiana': The Making of a Masterpiece by Robert Maiorano, by Valerie Brooks
Dancing for Balanchine by Merrill Ashley, with the assistance of Larry Kaplan, foreword by Clement Crisp
May 30, 1985: Mozartiana (letter)
April 11, 1985: B-flat Movie
Amadeus a film written by Peter Shaffer, directed by Milos Forman
December 20, 1984: A Christmas Roundup
Principles of the Harpsichord by Monsieur de Saint Lambert, translated and edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Postscript to 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
Egon Schiele, an Exhibition Museo d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro, Venice (August 26–November 25)
Egon Schiele by Serge Sabarsky
Lulu: The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II by George Perle
October 25, 1984: Kallman in Athens (letter)
September 27, 1984: Lives of the Poets
Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan
June 28, 1984: Required Reading
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982 by Philip Larkin
March 15, 1984: Death in the Family
A Tomb for Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated with an introduction by Paul Auster
December 22, 1983: Compositions
Auden: An American Friendship by Charles H. Miller
This Man and Music by Anthony Burgess
Glenn Gould: Variations by Himself and His Friends, edited with an introduction by John McGreevy
Balthus: Drawings and Watercolors by Giovanni Carandente
The Letters of William Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff edited and with an introduction by Loren R. Rothchild
July 21, 1983: Blue Suede Views
All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century by John Rockwell
March 17, 1983: V.
December 2, 1982: Puppy Love (letter)
August 12, 1982: Keeping Up with Mr. B
Going to the Dance by Arlene Croce
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal by Toni Bentley
June 10, 1982: My Life with Stravinsky
May 27, 1982: La Grande Mademoiselle
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Léonie Rosenstiel
February 4, 1982: A Musical Offering
A Virgil Thomson Reader
September 24, 1981: The 'Shadow' and the Substance
Die Frau ohne Schatten by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss: An Analysis of Text, Music, and Their Relationship by Sherrill Hahn Pantle. German Studies in America, No. 29, edited by Heinrich Meyer
Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) English version of the libretto by Eric Crozier
Richard Strauss: The Staging of His Operas and Ballets by Rudolf Hartmann
June 25, 1981: Chamberlain and the Jews (letter)
April 16, 1981: What 'R.' Wrought
The Diary of Richard Wagner The Brown Book: 1865-1882 presented and annotated by Joachim Bergfeld, translated by George Bird
Cosima Wagner's Diaries Vol. II: 1878-1883 additional notes by edited and annotated by Martin Gregor-Dellin, by Dietrich Mack, translated, with an introduction, postscript, and Geoffrey Skelton
Cosima Wagner by George R. Marek
In Search of Wagner by Theodore Adorno, translated by Rodney Livingstone
The Dream of Self-Destruction: Wagner's "Ring" and the Modern World by L.J. Rather
Bayreuth: The Early Years compiled, edited, and introduced by Robert Hartford
February 5, 1981: The New Liszt
The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff (1871-1886) Harvard University Press) translated by William R. Tyler, introduction and notes by Edward N. Waters
December 18, 1980: Schoenberg and Dika
Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections (1938-1976) by Dika Newlin
November 20, 1980: An 'Unheard of Intensity'
The Operas of Alban Berg Vol. I: Wozzeck by George Perle
January 24, 1980: Notes from the Composer
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Prokofiev by Prokofiev: A Composer's Memoir edited by David H. Appel, translated by Guy Daniels
O I.F. Stravinskom y ego Blizkikh by Kseniya Iur'evna Stravinskaya
November 22, 1979: Catherine and Igor Stravinsky
March 22, 1979: From the Vedas to Wagner: Short Reviews
Samavedic Chant by Wayne Howard
Wagner's "Rienzi": A Reappraisal Based on a Study of Sketches and Drafts by John Deathridge
Bruckner Box 327, Totowa, New Jersey 07511) by Derek Watson
The Harmonic Organization of "The Rite of Spring" by Allen Forte
Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Founder of French Opera by R.H.F. Scott
Vivaldi by Michael Talbot
Tchaikovsky by John Warrack
Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 by David Brown
November 9, 1978: To Criticize the Critic (letter)
September 28, 1978: Sour Notes
A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths
August 17, 1978: Concorde Diary
May 4, 1978: Light on Lasso
Orlando di Lasso: Sämliche Werke, Neue Reihe edited by Wolfgang Boetticher
Orlando di Lasso Volume I: Sein Leben Volume II: Briefe by Horst Leuchtmann
Music of Orlando di Lasso: I: Missa Bell Amfitrit Altera; Penitential Psalm VII, II: Four Motets; Penitential Psalm V Choir of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, conducted by Simon Preston
March 23, 1978: Evviva Vivaldi! A Consumer's Report for the Tercentenary
March 23, 1978: The Vivaldi Numbers Game
March 9, 1978: Too Little Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: A Little Order A Selection From His Journalism edited by Dorat Gallagher
February 23, 1978: The First Universal Composer
Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Festival Conference, Lincoln Center, June 21-25, 1971 edited by E.E. Lowinsky, in collaboration with Bonnie J. Blackburn
Josquin Desprez: Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi and Motets, Chansons, and Instrumental Music capella antiqua (München), conducted by Konrad Ruhland. two records, Philips 6775 005
November 24, 1977: Astrology, Hockney, Schubert: A Musical Diary
May 26, 1977: Webern Mysteries
May 12, 1977: 'Lulu' at the Met
Lulu by Alban Berg, conducted by James Levine, directed by John Dexter
April 14, 1977: Words & Music (letter)
January 20, 1977: Edvard Munch: Self-Portraitist (Notes from a Diary)
Edvard Munch by Thomas Messer
Edvard Munch: The Scream by Reinhold Heller
Munch by Jean Selz, translated by Eileen Hennessy
The Graphic Art of Edvard Munch by Werner Timm, translated by Ruth Michaelis-Jena, by Patrick Murray
Edvard Munch catalogue of the Arts Council of Great Britain, with forewords by Sir Kenneth Clark, by Knut Berg
Edvard Munch a film directed by Peter Watkins
December 9, 1976: Elegy for 'Mary Hartman'
November 11, 1976: 'Winnie' and 'Uncle Wolf'
Winifred Wagner a film directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
The Wagner Family Albums by Wolf Siegfried Wagner, translated by Susanne Flatauer
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth by Hans Mayer, translated by Jack Zipes
Wagner: A Documentary Study edited by Herbert Barth, by Dietrich Mack, by Egon Voss, translated by P.R.J. Ford, by Mary Whittall
October 14, 1976: The Paris Opéra in New York
The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, directed by Giorgio Strehler, designed by Ezio Frijerio, conducted by Georg Solti
Otello by Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, staged by Terry Hands, designed by Joseph Svoboda, conducted by Georg Solti
Faust by Gounod, libretto by Barbier and Carré, staged by Jorge Lavelli, designed by Max Bignen, conducted by Michel Plasson
September 16, 1976: The Battle of Lenox Hill
July 15, 1976: Musical Rx for a Political Season
Francesco Landini by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments
Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons I and Chansons II (2 records) by Thomas Binkley director and lutenist, by Andrea von Ramm soprano, by Richard Levitt countertenor, by Sterling Jones stringed instruments. Studio for Early Music, Cologne. EMI Records
July 15, 1976: Eliot's English Usage (Contd.) (letter)
July 15, 1976: Eliot's English Usage (Contd.) (letter)
June 10, 1976: 'Elektra'and Richard Strauss
June 10, 1976: Eliot's English Usage (letter)
May 13, 1976: Der Rosenkavalier: 'Something Mozartian'?
April 15, 1976: Nijinsky and 'Le Sacre'
Nijinsky Dancing by Lincoln Kirstein
Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States, 1911-1929 by Nesta Macdonald
March 18, 1976: A 'Beautiful Coloured, Musical Thing'
January 22, 1976: 'Figaro' at the Met: A Marriage on the Rocks
Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart, by Lorenzo da Ponte. The Metropolitan Opera, directed by Günther Rennert, designed by Robert O'Hearn, and conducted by Steuart Bedford
December 11, 1975: 'A Prodigy of Nature'
November 27, 1975: Playing with 'The Magic Flute'
The Magic Flute a film directed by Ingmar Bergman. with the Swedish Stage Broadcasting Network Symphony, conducted by Eric Ericson. Sung and spoken in Swedish, with English subtitles
A Preface To "The Magic Flute" by E.M. Batley
"The Magic Flute," Masonic Opera by Jacques Chailley, translated by Herbert Weinstock
Three Mozart Operas by R.B. Moberly
October 30, 1975: Mozart's 'Opera of All Operas'
The Don Juan Legend by Otto Rank, translated and edited, with an introduction by David G. Winter
Don Giovanni edited by Wolfgang Plath, edited by Wolfgang Rehm
October 16, 1975: Salzburg, Mozart and 'Così'
September 18, 1975: Two Modern Masters
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black
Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen
August 7, 1975: The 'Doctor Faustus' Case
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as told by a Friend by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus": The Sources and Structure of the Novel by Gunilla Bergsten, translated by Krishna Winston
Faust as Musician: A Study of Thomas Mann's Novel "Doctor Faustus" by Patrick Carnegy
June 12, 1975: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Thomas Mann Symposium by Claude Hill chairman
Katia Mann: Unwritten Memoirs by Katia Mann, edited by Elizabeth von Plessen, by Michael Mann
The Hesse/Mann Letters: The Correspondence of Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann, 1910-1955 edited by Anni Carlsson, by Volker Michels, translated by Ralph Manheim
Mythology and Humanism: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Karl Kerényi translated by Alexander Gelley
An Exceptional Friendship: The Correspondence of Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
May 15, 1975: Telling Time
Time in Greek Tragedy by Jacqueline de Romilly
May 1, 1975: The Nostalgic Kingdom of Maurice Ravel
April 17, 1975: Verdi, Shakespeare, and 'Falstaff'
April 3, 1975: Le Sacre and Pierre Monteux: An Unknown Debt
March 20, 1975: The Giant of Busseto
Letters of Giuseppe Verdi selected, translated, and edited by Charles Osborne
Seven Verdi Librettos with English text by William Weaver
The Operas of Verdi: From Oberto to Rigoletto by Julian Budden
Verdi by Joseph Wechsberg
"Verdi, Ghislanzoni and 'Aida': The Uses of Convention" by Philip Gossett
March 6, 1975: Liszt Learning (letter)
February 6, 1975: Lisztomania
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero by Eleanor Perényi
Liszt by Claude Rostand, translated by John Victor
The Man Liszt: A Study of the Tragi-Comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself by Ernest Newman
January 23, 1975: Huxley at Home
Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford
December 12, 1974: THE POET AND 'THE RAKE'
October 31, 1974: Parsifal: The Worship of Wagnerism
Parsifal Metropolitan Opera production, conducted by Georg Solti, with René Kollo, by Gottlob Frick, by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by Christa Ludwig, by Zoltan Kélémén, by Hans Hotter
Parsifal, Volume 14 (score) edited by Martin Beck, by Egon Voxx
Parsifal, Volume 30 (documents) of the Sämtliche Werke (Complete Works) of Richard Wagner edited by Martin Beck, by Egon Voxx
October 17, 1974: Taking the Wagner Cure
August 8, 1974: Stravinsky in America
May 16, 1974: In the Mouse Trap
The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch
May 2, 1974: Stravinsky in the Twenties
May 2, 1974: Stravinsky (letter)
February 21, 1974: Stravinsky's Russian Letters
I. F. Stravinsky: Essays and Materials compiled by L.S. D'yachkova, edited by B.M. Yarustovsky
F. Stravinsky: Essays, Letters, Memoirs compiled and annotated by L. Kutateladze, edited by A. Gozenpud
January 24, 1974: Moses and Chopin (letter)
December 13, 1973: The Stravinsky Archive (letter)
December 13, 1973: Moses and Aaron in Paris
November 29, 1973: Mahler the Modern
Mahler by Henry-Louis de La Grange
Mahler by Kurt Blaukopf
October 18, 1973: Chopin's Progress
August 9, 1973: Stravinsky: Problems for Biographers
December 14, 1972: Stravinsky's Svadebka (Les Noces)
October 5, 1972: Venice: Paragraphs from a Diary
July 20, 1972: Stravinsky's Obituary (letter)
June 29, 1972: The Press: Freedom From, as well as Of
April 20, 1972: Stravinsky (letter)
April 6, 1972: Fit to Print: The Changing "Times"
October 7, 1971: Non Credo
Mass September 8, 1971 by Leonard Bernstein
July 1, 1971: Stravinsky: End of a Chronicle
February 25, 1971: Pages from a Chronicle
November 6, 1969: Pay Dirt: Notes on the Sex Explosion
Books by Robert Craft
Improbable Life: Memoirs (2002)
Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers (2000)
Sutoravinsuki Yujo No Hibi - Stravinsky Chronicle of a Friendship (1998)
The Moment of Existence: Music, Literature, and the Arts 1990- 1995 (1996)
Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life (1992)
Small Craft Advisories: Critical Articles, 1984-1988: Art, Ballet, Music, Literature, Film (1989)
Present Perspectives, Critical Writings (1984)
Current Convictions: Views and Reviews (1977)
Prejudices in Disguise; Articles, Essays, Reviews (1974)
Stravinsky; Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948-1971 (1972)