O rare Hoffnung
Subtitle: a memorial garland
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Notes: Accompanying double-sided flexidisc titled: Gerard Hoffnung : a fragment of an autobiography. Edited from a Desert Island Discs broadcast (Jan. 14, 1957) with Roy Plomley. The records chosen by Mr. Hoffnung include: The Cats' duet from ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges, Act III duet from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier; the slow movement of Debussey's String Quartet; Gershwin's An American in Paris; opening of the Hoffnung Music Festival; Warlock's Corpus Christi; Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, and the last movement of Honegger's Third Symphony (Liturgique).