... Schumann—including the Symphony no. 2—as well as to Bach, especially the ecstatic poetry of his Cantata 21. One particularly unexpected work provided Wagner with ideas for Tristan, namely the fourth of Schumann’s Bach fugues, which dates from October 1845—in fact, from the very week...

... and the October Cantata, and the moral indifference entitled to artists and art-lovers. Performers would be far more likely to think twice before performing Holst's setting than they would Stravinsky's, because these settings have a distinctive anti-Semitic tone. One of Vladimir Nabokov's truly...