Havergal Brian (1876 1972) was not only a profoundly original composer, he also wrote acutley perceptive music journalism for some decades. The second of the six-volume series of the writings of the English composer concentrates on Brian’s European contemporaries in the first half of this century. As well as the names that one might expect to find here * Bartok, Berg, Busoni, Debussy, Hindemith, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schocnberg, Strauss, Respighi, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Szymanowski and Varese * Brian also covers such now-forgotten figures as August Bungert, Cesar Geloso, Wilhelm Kienzl and Georg Schumann.