The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘Isaiah Berlin on Music’, a compilation of all IB’s music criticism broadly defined, comprising the following (NB 'View document' below for PDF):

'Music Chronicle' - an online collection of the five articles published in Oxford Outlook 1930–2 under the pseudonym ‘Albert Alfred Apricott’ (‘A.A.A.’ except in the first case), 1930–2 (i.e. Bibs. 2b, 6, 7, 12, 13) with additional items (Bibs. 21(b), 19(c), 21(c), 23(c), 29)

• (1) Oxford Outlook 10 no. 53 (November 1930), 616–27 (see Bib.2(b)); (2) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 54 (March 1931), 49–53 (see Bib.6); (3) Oxford Outlook 11 no. 55 (June 1931), 131–5 (see Bib.7); (4) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 57 (February 1932), 61–5 (see Bib.12); (5) Oxford Outlook 12 no. 58 (May 1932), 133–8 (see Bib.13); Appendices – Concert Reviews in the Oxford Magazine (1) The Mass in D, 6 May 1937: OM 55 (1936–7), 558–9 (Bib.21(b)); (2) ‘Boyd Neel String Orchestra’, Oxford Magazine 55 (1936–7), 588–9 (Bib.19(c)); (3) (unattributed) ‘Toscanini’, Oxford Magazine 55 (1936–7), 719–20 (Bib.21c); (4) ‘Oxford Subscription Concert’, Oxford Magazine 56 (1937–8), 470–1 (Bib.23c); (5) ‘Karajan: A Study’, Observer, 19 September 1948, 2 (Bib.29)

‘Five Musical Books’ between 1934 and 1938 IB published five reviews of books on musical topics (Bibs. 16, 17, 18, 23b, 23)

• (1) Music in Decline, Review of Constant Lambert, Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline (London, 1934: Faber), Spectator, 11 May 1934, 745–6 (Bib.16); (2) Review of Bernard van Dieren, Down Among the Dead Men and Other Essays (Oxford, 1935: Oxford University Press), Spectator, 1 November 1935, 732; see too letters, 22 November 1935, 874, 29 November 1935, 906 (Bib.17); (3) Review of Cecil Gray, Predicaments, or Music and the Future, Spectator, 21 August 1936, 317–18 (Bib.18); (4) Laws of Musical Sound, Review of Sir James Jeans, Science and Music (Cambridge, 1937: Cambridge University Press), London Mercury 37 no. 219 (January 1938), 356 (Bib.23(b)); (5) The Development of Modern Music, Review of Gerald Abraham, A Hundred Years of Music (London, [1938]: Duckworth), Spectator, 23 September 1938, 489–90 (Bib.23)

‘Gramophone Notes’ Record Reviews from the Oxford Magazine (OM), 1936–40 (Bibs. 18(a), 21(a), 23(a), 26(a), 46(a)): 'From 1936 to 1940 [...] Isaiah Berlin reviewed new record releases for the Oxford Magazine. These pieces form a substantial part of his writings on music – writings which may not be extensive, but are certainly significant, springing as they do from one of the deepest loves of his life, if not the deepest.' (Henry Hardy)

• (1) 13 February 1936: OM 54 (1935–6), 370; 5 March 1936: OM 54 (1935–6), 463–4; 18 June 1936: OM 54 (1935–6), 717; 19 November 1936: OM 55 (1936–7), 182 (Bib.18(a)); (2) 6 May, 1937: OM 55 (1936–7), 568 (Bib.21(a)); (3) 16 June 1938: OM 56 (1937–8), 770–1; 1 December 1938: OM 57 (1938–9), 243 (Bib.23(a)); (4) 9 May 1940: OM 58 (1939–40), 306–7 (Bib.26(a)); (5) Appendix: Lament for Lipatti, House and Garden 7 No 3 (March 1952), 91, 98 (Bib.46(a))

‘On Opera’, an online collection of musical notes previously published separately as:

• (1) 'Mozart at Glyndebourne' (Bib.186); (2) 'Tchaikovsky and Eugene Onegin' (Bib.124); (3) 'Khovanshchina' (Bib.89); (4) 'Performances memorable — and not so memorable' (Bib.144); (5) 'Surtitles' (Bib.192(b) )

‘The Depth of Michael Tippett’, a contribution to Ian Kemp (ed.), Michael Tippett: A Symposium on his 60th Birthday (London, 1965: Faber), 62–3 (Bib.97)