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Articles ordered by TONIC issue
| The Beginnings of the Robert Simpson Society – John Brooks (1980) |
1/1: 2–3 |
| Composer of Our Time – Robert Dearling (1979) |
1/1: 4–9 |
| List of Robert Simpson’s Works – Angela Musgrave |
1/1: 10–12 |
| Two Early Piano Works – Brian Duke |
1/1: 13–15 |
| The Man and the Music. With a discussion of some matters by Brian Duke and Hans Keller – Hans Keller |
1/2: 7–11 1/3: 11–13, 16–17 1/4: 23–24 |
| The Origin of the First Symphony – Harold Truscott |
1/2: 11, 14–16 1/3: 25–26 |
| A Birthday Hansel – Lennox Berkeley, Adrian Boult, Derek Bourgeois, Peter Racine Fricker, Vagn Holmboe, John McCabe, Goffredo Petrassi, Edmund Rubbra, Humphrey Searle, Ronald Stevenson, Michael Tippett (1981) |
1/2: 12–13 |
| 1980: A Year of Simpson (reprint from Tempo) – Bayan Northcott (1980) |
1/2: 16–19 |
| Complete Discography | 1/2: 20–21 |
| 60th Birthday Celebration: a Report – J. David Gillett (1981) |
1/3: 3–4 |
| 60th Birthday Radio Interview – Robert Simpson/Michael Oliver (1981) |
1/3: 6–11 |
| The Canon in Robert Simpson’s Sixth Quartet – Lionel Pike |
1/3: 17–18 |
| Working with Simpson – John Underwood |
1/3: 18–21 |
| Recordings held in the British Institute of Recorded Sound [now National Sound Archive in The British Library] – A. H. Mason |
1/3: 22–25 |
| The Constitution of the Robert Simpson Society (1981) | 1/4: 7–8 |
| Simpson’s Rasumovsky Quartets. An Introduction – Lionel Pike |
1/4: 8–10 |
| Simpson’s Rasumovskys. Three discussions on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth String Quartets – Malcolm MacDonald/Robert Simpson |
1/4: 11–16 2/1: 15 3/1: 18–25 3/4: 21–27 |
| Forum: Essence of Bruckner – Robert Simpson |
1/4: 17 |
| The Proms and Natural Justice. A comment, with a response by Robert Simpson – Robert Matthew-Walker |
1/4: 18–21 |
| Symphony No. 5. Programme note – Robert Simpson |
2/1: 4–5 |
| Friends and Mentors – Robert Simpson |
2/1: 6–7 |
| The Robert Simpson Society Study Archive | 2/1: 8 |
| [How Do You Compose?] With a reply by Robert Simpson – Gordon Roland-Adams |
2/1: 9 |
| The Genesis of the Eighth Symphony. A radio discussion – Robert Simpson/Michael Oliver (1982) |
2/1: 10–14 |
| String Quartet No. 9. A review (reprint from The Sunday Times) – David Cairns (1982) |
2/1: 16–17 |
| Comment or Perception? A sentient artist’s reply to unjust criticism – Robert Simpson |
2/1: 18–20 |
| Robert Simpson – Foreground and Background – Lionel Pike |
2/2: 3–17 |
| Tonality and the Symphony. With a response by Robert Simpson – Paul Rapoport |
2/2: 18–20 |
| Professor David Gillett [†] – John Brooks |
3/1: 3–4 |
| Two Friends ‘Gone’. [Edmund Rubbra and Hans Keller†] – Robert Simpson |
3/1: 4–5 |
| The Ninth Symphony (1986). Programme note – Robert Simpson |
3/1: 6–7 |
| The Fifth Symphony. An Analytical Commentary – Paul Pellay |
3/1: 8–12 |
| The Four Temperaments – Kevin Norbury |
3/1: 13–16 |
| The Sixth Symphony (1977). Programme note – Robert Simpson |
3/2: 4–5 |
| The Seventh Symphony (1977). Programme note – Robert Simpson |
3/2: 5 |
| The Ninth Symphony – Lionel Pike (1989) |
3/2: 7–13 |
| An Expression of Energy – Stephen Johnson (1987) |
3/2: 14–16 |
| New Simpson Masterwork. [Introduction and Allegro on a Bass by Max Reger] – Eric Wilson (1988) |
3/2: 17–19 |
| John Brooks [†] – Robert Simpson |
3/3: 2 |
| Simpson’s Symphonic Appetite: recorded talk with musical examples – Malcolm MacDonald |
3/3: 3–6 |
| The Ninth Symphony (reprint from The Musical Times) – Stephen Johnson (1987) |
3/3: 7–13 |
| The Twelfth Quartet (1987). Programme note – Robert Simpson |
3/3: 14 |
| The Eighth Quartet – RS’s ‘New Way’ (reprint from Tempo) – Lionel Pike (1985) |
3/3: 15–29 |
| The Sixth Symphony – Lionel Pike |
3/4: 2–12 |
| The Seventh Symphony. A conductor’s perspective – Matthew Taylor |
3/4: 13–15 |
| Ninth Symphony. A radio discussion – Robert Simpson/Gillian White (1988) |
3/4: 16–20 |
| Symphony No. 2. Programme note – Robert Simpson |
4/1: 3 |
| Simpson’s Second Symphony: The view from the archives – Lionel Pike (1989) |
4/1: 4–13 |
| Robert Simpson’s 2nd Symphony – an analysis – John Pickard |
4/1: 15–25 |
| On Conducting Oneself in Public (reprint from The Listener) – Robert Simpson (1968) |
4/1: 26–27 |
| An Astronomical Quartet [No. 7]: a lesson from Robert Simpson – Lionel Pike |
4/2: 2–17 |
| Robert Simpson at 70 – Philip Maund (1991) |
4/2: 19–21 |
| AGM talk – Brian Duke (1991) |
4/2: 22–24 |
| Robert Simpson: an appreciation – John McCabe (1991) |
4/2: 25–26 |
| Robert Simpson – Robin Holloway (1991) |
4/2: 26 |
| How I Came to Meet Bob – J. David Gillett |
5: 2–4 |
| The Ferocious Anti-Pessimist (reprint from The Times Higher Education Supplement) – Lionel Pike (1984) |
5: 5–7 |
| Clues and Keys (reprint from The Listener) – Hugh Ottaway (1970) |
5: 8–10 |
| Against Lipsius (reprint from The Listener) – Robert Simpson (1971) |
5: 11–14 |
| Simpson’s Third Symphony – An Analysis – John Pickard |
6: 3–27 |
| Towards a Study of Musical Motion: Robert Simpson’s Variations and Finale on a Theme of Haydn (reprint from The Music Review) – Lionel Pike |
7: 3–12 |
| Simpson’s String Quartet No. 1 – An Analysis – Lionel Pike |
7: 13–27 |
| A Study in Cosmic Motion: Robert Simpson’s Eppur si Muove – Lionel Pike |
8: 3–6 |
| Robert Simpson’s String Quartets Nos. 4, 5, & 6 and their Relationship to Beethoven’s Opus 59 ‘Rasumovsky’ Quartets – Simon Phillippo |
8: 7–23 |
| The Composer Speaks. Radio conversation – Robert Simpson/Julian Budden (1981) |
9: 3–31 |
| Robert Simpson and Post-Structuralism. Analytical perspectives – Greg Laybourn |
10: 5–27 |
| Circles, Mirrors, and Structural Momentum in Robert Simpson’s Second Symphony – Simon Phillippo |
10: 29–38 |
| 20th century music on record – Robert Simpson (1958) |
11: 3–6 |
| Musicians Talking. Symphonic thinking, avant-garde and romanticism – Robert Simpson/Deryck Cooke/Bernard Keeffe/Denis Matthews (1964) |
11: 7–24 |
| Haydn the Symphonist – Robert Simpson (1952) |
12: 2–48 |
| Robert Simpson’s Dynamic Analogy: Techniques of Structural Re-Modelling – Greg Laybourn (1996) |
13: 2–34 |
| Berlioz Now – Robert Simpson (1960) |
14: 3–28 |
| Composing – Robert Simpson (1959) |
14: 29–34 |
| Robert Simpson Lecture, Wigmore Hall – Malcolm MacDonald (2000) |
15: 3–12 |
| Symphonic Momentum and Post-tonal Dramas: Simpson’s First Symphony – Simon Phillippo (1999) |
15: 13–18 |
| Matthew Taylor conducts Robert Simpson’s Symphonic Swansong – Martin Anderson (2004) |
15: 19–22 |
| Reviews: Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 11. Variations on a Theme of Nielsen. Hyperion CDA67500 – David Hurwitz, Hubert Culot, Robert Matthew-Walker, Martin Anderson |
15: 23–27 |
| Lewis Foreman interviews Dr Robert Simpson (Cedar Cottage, Chearsley, near Aylesbury) – Robert Simpson/Lewis Foreman (1980) |
16: 3–23 |
| Correspondence between Robert Simpson and Adolf Busch from original material at the BrüderBuschArchiv at the Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe – Robert Simpson, Adolf Busch |
17: 3–8 |
| The correspondence of Robert Simpson with William Bebbington from original material at the Robert Simpson Society Archives, edited by Terry Hazell & Jürgen Schaarwächter – Robert Simpson, William G. Bebbington |
17: 9–28 |
| Gleichenstein’s Hat. Beethoven Essays by Maynard Solomon – Robert Simpson (1989) |
17: 29–31 |
| Robert Simpson in conversation with Bruce Duffie via telephone – Robert Simpson/Bruce Duffie (1991) |
17: 32–40 |
| Vernon Handley CBE 1939–2008. A Brief Reminiscence [†] – Martin Anderson (2008) |
18: 1–2 |
| Variations as finale – Robert Simpson (1982) |
18: 5–6 |
| On ‘completing’ unfinished master-pieces – Robert Simpson (1989) |
18: 7–11 |
| The Art of Fugue (1964/1980) – Robert Simpson |
18: 12–15 |
| More Bach: programme notes – Robert Simpson |
18: 16–17 |
| Reger: programme note – Robert Simpson |
18: 18 |
| Brahms: programme notes – Robert Simpson |
18: 19 |
| Orchestral Style – Robert Simpson (1947) |
19: 3–20 |
| A Note on the Symphonies of Mahler – Robert Simpson (1948) |
19: 21–24 |
| Debussy, Ravel, and Impressionism – Robert Simpson (1946) |
19: 25–29 |
| Sibelius and musical movement – Robert Simpson (1946) |
19: 30–32 |
| Nature music in Robert Simpson — a personal response – Matthew Taylor |
20: 3–4 |
| Variations and Fugue for recorder and string quartet – John Turner |
20: 5–7 |
| Tribute to Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973) – Robert Simpson |
20: 8–9 |
| Some recollections of Enescu – Robert Simpson |
20: 10–11 |
| Ianus Geminus: Music in Scandinavia – Robert Simpson |
20: 12–18 |
| Robert Simpson honoured in his home town – David Jones (2011) |
21: 3–9 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphonies Nos. 14 & 21 – Robert Simpson (1969) |
21: 10–13 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 8 – Robert Simpson (1972) |
21: 14–15 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 10 – Robert Simpson (1972) |
21: 16–17 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 10 – Robert Simpson (1973) |
21: 18–21 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 9 – Robert Simpson (1976) |
21: 22–23 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphonies Nos. 10 & 21 – Robert Simpson (1972) |
21: 24–26 |
| The Brian revival – Robert Simpson (1984) |
21: 27–29 |
| Brian’s “Gothic” – Robert Simpson in conversation with Stephen Johnson – Robert Simpson/Stephen Johnson (1991) |
21: 30–33 |
| Textual accuracy in the “Gothic” – Robert Simpson (1979) |
21: 34 |
| Introduction to the Guide to Modern Music on Records – Robert Simpson (1958) |
21: 35–38 |
| Robert Simpson 1921–1997 – a memoir, in 8 chapters – Robert Matthew-Walker (2001) |
22: 2–60 |
| Letters to Robert Simpson, edited by Jürgen Schaarwächter – Kaikhosru Sorabji |
23: 2–22 |
| Editorial [CD releases; John McCabe†, Ronald Stevenson†, Miriam MacEwan†] – Jürgen Schaarwächter, Martin Anderson |
24: 1–8 |
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews – Dermot Gault, Arnold Whittall, Richard Whitehouse, Lewis Foreman, Florian Schuck |
24: 9–23 |
| Robert Simpson’s ‘Gothic Symphony’? – Corrected version – Lionel Pike |
24: 25–43 |
| In memoriam Angela Simpson – Donald Macauley/Jennifer and Lionel Pike |
25: 3–5 |
| Eppur si muove. A glimpse into Robert Simpson’s workshop – Lionel Pike |
25: 7–16 |
| Traditionalist Thought in British Music: Robert Simpson’s Promotion of Nielsen and Sibelius – Florian Schuck |
26: 5–10 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions – Ian Craft, Daphne Dorrell, John Mccabe, Graham Melville-Mason, Lionel Pike, David Matthews, Ronald Stevenson, Harry Newstone, Matthew Taylor, John Pickard, David Curtis, Dick Edwards, Pamela Bacon, Bob Hill, Keith Bennett, Michael Bentley, Brian Duke, Douglas Gordon, Donald Macauley, Rodney Newton (1997/2021) |
26: 11–37 |
| The Robert Simpson Society. Four decades of ‘The glorious Nut Case Society’ – David Jones |
26: 38–48 |
Articles ordered by author
Martin Anderson
| Matthew Taylor conducts Robert Simpson’s Symphonic Swansong (2004) | 15: 19–22 |
| Reviews: Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 11. Variations on a Theme of Nielsen. Hyperion CDA67500 | 15: 23–27 |
| Vernon Handley CBE 1939–2008. A Brief Reminiscence [†] (2008) | 18: 1–2 |
| Editorial [CD releases; John McCabe†, Ronald Stevenson†, Miriam MacEwan†] | 24: 1–8 |
Pamela Bacon
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
William G. Bebbington
| The correspondence of Robert Simpson with William Bebbington from original material at the Robert Simpson Society Archives, edited by Terry Hazell & Jürgen Schaarwächter | 17: 9–28 |
Keith Bennett
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Michael Bentley
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Lennox Berkeley
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Adrian Boult
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Derek Bourgeois
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
John Brooks
| The Beginnings of the Robert Simpson Society (1980) | 1/1: 2–3 |
| Professor David Gillett [†] | 3/1: 3–4 |
Julian Budden
| The Composer Speaks. Radio conversation (1981) | 9: 3–31 |
Adolf Busch
| Correspondence between Robert Simpson and Adolf Busch from original material at the BrüderBuschArchiv at the Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe | 17: 3–8 |
David Cairns
| String Quartet No. 9. A review (reprint from The Sunday Times) (1982) | 2/1: 16–17 |
Deryck Cooke
| Musicians Talking. Symphonic thinking, avant-garde and romanticism (1964) | 11: 7–24 |
Ian Craft
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Hubert Culot
| Reviews: Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 11. Variations on a Theme of Nielsen. Hyperion CDA67500 | 15: 23–27 |
David Curtis
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Robert Dearling
| Composer of Our Time (1979) | 1/1: 4–9 |
Daphne Dorrell
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Bruce Duffie
| Robert Simpson in conversation with Bruce Duffie via telephone (1991) | 17: 32–40 |
Brian Duke
| Two Early Piano Works | 1/1: 13–15 |
| AGM talk (1991) | 4/2: 22–24 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Dick Edwards
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Lewis Foreman
| Lewis Foreman interviews Dr Robert Simpson (Cedar Cottage, Chearsley, near Aylesbury) (1980) | 16: 3–23 |
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews | 24: 9–23 |
Peter Racine Fricker
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Dermot Gault
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews | 24: 9–23 |
J. David Gillett
| 60th Birthday Celebration: a Report (1981) | 1/3: 3–4 |
| How I Came to Meet Bob | 5: 2–4 |
Douglas Gordon
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Bob Hill
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Robin Holloway
| Robert Simpson (1991) | 4/2: 26 |
Vagn Holmboe
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
David Hurwitz
| Reviews: Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 11. Variations on a Theme of Nielsen. Hyperion CDA67500 | 15: 23–27 |
Stephen Johnson
| An Expression of Energy (1987) | 3/2: 14–16 |
| The Ninth Symphony (reprint from The Musical Times) (1987) | 3/3: 7–13 |
| Brian’s “Gothic” – Robert Simpson in conversation with Stephen Johnson (1991) | 21: 30–33 |
David Jones
| Robert Simpson honoured in his home town (2011) | 21: 3–9 |
| The Robert Simpson Society. Four decades of ‘The glorious Nut Case Society’ | 26: 38–48 |
Bernard Keeffe
| Musicians Talking. Symphonic thinking, avant-garde and romanticism (1964) | 11: 7–24 |
Hans Keller
| The Man and the Music. With a discussion of some matters by Brian Duke and Hans Keller | 1/2: 7–11 1/3: 11–13, 16–17 1/4: 23–24 |
Greg Laybourn
| Robert Simpson and Post-Structuralism. Analytical perspectives | 10: 5–27 |
| Robert Simpson’s Dynamic Analogy: Techniques of Structural Re-Modelling (1996) | 13: 2–34 |
Malcolm MacDonald
| Simpson’s Rasumovskys. Three discussions on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth String Quartets | 1/4: 11–16 2/1: 15 3/1: 18–25 3/4: 21–27 |
| Simpson’s Symphonic Appetite: recorded talk with musical examples | 3/3: 3–6 |
| Robert Simpson Lecture, Wigmore Hall (2000) | 15: 3–12 |
Donald Macauley
| In memoriam Angela Simpson | 25: 3–5 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
A. H. Mason
| Recordings held in the British Institute of Recorded Sound [now National Sound Archive in The British Library] | 1/3: 22–25 |
Robert Matthew-Walker
| The Proms and Natural Justice. A comment, with a response by Robert Simpson | 1/4: 18–21 |
| Reviews: Robert Simpson, Symphony No. 11. Variations on a Theme of Nielsen. Hyperion CDA67500 | 15: 23–27 |
| Robert Simpson 1921–1997 – a memoir, in 8 chapters (2001) | 22: 2–60 |
David Matthews
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Denis Matthews
| Musicians Talking. Symphonic thinking, avant-garde and romanticism (1964) | 11: 7–24 |
Philip Maund
| Robert Simpson at 70 (1991) | 4/2: 19–21 |
John McCabe
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
| Robert Simpson: an appreciation (1991) | 4/2: 25–26 |
John Mccabe
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Graham Melville-Mason
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Angela Musgrave
| List of Robert Simpson’s Works | 1/1: 10–12 |
Harry Newstone
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Rodney Newton
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Kevin Norbury
| The Four Temperaments | 3/1: 13–16 |
Bayan Northcott
| 1980: A Year of Simpson (reprint from Tempo) (1980) | 1/2: 16–19 |
Michael Oliver
| 60th Birthday Radio Interview (1981) | 1/3: 6–11 |
| The Genesis of the Eighth Symphony. A radio discussion (1982) | 2/1: 10–14 |
Hugh Ottaway
| Clues and Keys (reprint from The Listener) (1970) | 5: 8–10 |
Paul Pellay
| The Fifth Symphony. An Analytical Commentary | 3/1: 8–12 |
Goffredo Petrassi
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Simon Phillippo
| Robert Simpson’s String Quartets Nos. 4, 5, & 6 and their Relationship to Beethoven’s Opus 59 ‘Rasumovsky’ Quartets | 8: 7–23 |
| Circles, Mirrors, and Structural Momentum in Robert Simpson’s Second Symphony | 10: 29–38 |
| Symphonic Momentum and Post-tonal Dramas: Simpson’s First Symphony (1999) | 15: 13–18 |
John Pickard
| Robert Simpson’s 2nd Symphony – an analysis | 4/1: 15–25 |
| Simpson’s Third Symphony – An Analysis | 6: 3–27 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Lionel Pike
| The Canon in Robert Simpson’s Sixth Quartet | 1/3: 17–18 |
| Simpson’s Rasumovsky Quartets. An Introduction | 1/4: 8–10 |
| Robert Simpson – Foreground and Background | 2/2: 3–17 |
| The Ninth Symphony (1989) | 3/2: 7–13 |
| The Eighth Quartet – RS’s ‘New Way’ (reprint from Tempo) (1985) | 3/3: 15–29 |
| The Sixth Symphony | 3/4: 2–12 |
| Simpson’s Second Symphony: The view from the archives (1989) | 4/1: 4–13 |
| An Astronomical Quartet [No. 7]: a lesson from Robert Simpson | 4/2: 2–17 |
| The Ferocious Anti-Pessimist (reprint from The Times Higher Education Supplement) (1984) | 5: 5–7 |
| Towards a Study of Musical Motion: Robert Simpson’s Variations and Finale on a Theme of Haydn (reprint from The Music Review) | 7: 3–12 |
| Simpson’s String Quartet No. 1 – An Analysis | 7: 13–27 |
| A Study in Cosmic Motion: Robert Simpson’s Eppur si Muove | 8: 3–6 |
| Robert Simpson’s ‘Gothic Symphony’? – Corrected version | 24: 25–43 |
| Eppur si muove. A glimpse into Robert Simpson’s workshop | 25: 7–16 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Jennifer and Lionel Pike
| In memoriam Angela Simpson | 25: 3–5 |
Paul Rapoport
| Tonality and the Symphony. With a response by Robert Simpson | 2/2: 18–20 |
Gordon Roland-Adams
| [How Do You Compose?] With a reply by Robert Simpson | 2/1: 9 |
Edmund Rubbra
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Jürgen Schaarwächter
| Editorial [CD releases; John McCabe†, Ronald Stevenson†, Miriam MacEwan†] | 24: 1–8 |
Florian Schuck
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews | 24: 9–23 |
| Traditionalist Thought in British Music: Robert Simpson’s Promotion of Nielsen and Sibelius | 26: 5–10 |
Humphrey Searle
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Robert Simpson
| 60th Birthday Radio Interview (1981) | 1/3: 6–11 |
| Simpson’s Rasumovskys. Three discussions on the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth String Quartets | 1/4: 11–16 2/1: 15 3/1: 18–25 3/4: 21–27 |
| Forum: Essence of Bruckner | 1/4: 17 |
| Symphony No. 5. Programme note | 2/1: 4–5 |
| Friends and Mentors | 2/1: 6–7 |
| The Genesis of the Eighth Symphony. A radio discussion (1982) | 2/1: 10–14 |
| Comment or Perception? A sentient artist’s reply to unjust criticism | 2/1: 18–20 |
| Two Friends ‘Gone’. [Edmund Rubbra and Hans Keller†] | 3/1: 4–5 |
| The Ninth Symphony (1986). Programme note | 3/1: 6–7 |
| The Sixth Symphony (1977). Programme note | 3/2: 4–5 |
| The Seventh Symphony (1977). Programme note | 3/2: 5 |
| John Brooks [†] | 3/3: 2 |
| The Twelfth Quartet (1987). Programme note | 3/3: 14 |
| Ninth Symphony. A radio discussion (1988) | 3/4: 16–20 |
| Symphony No. 2. Programme note | 4/1: 3 |
| On Conducting Oneself in Public (reprint from The Listener) (1968) | 4/1: 26–27 |
| Against Lipsius (reprint from The Listener) (1971) | 5: 11–14 |
| The Composer Speaks. Radio conversation (1981) | 9: 3–31 |
| 20th century music on record (1958) | 11: 3–6 |
| Musicians Talking. Symphonic thinking, avant-garde and romanticism (1964) | 11: 7–24 |
| Haydn the Symphonist (1952) | 12: 2–48 |
| Berlioz Now (1960) | 14: 3–28 |
| Composing (1959) | 14: 29–34 |
| Lewis Foreman interviews Dr Robert Simpson (Cedar Cottage, Chearsley, near Aylesbury) (1980) | 16: 3–23 |
| Correspondence between Robert Simpson and Adolf Busch from original material at the BrüderBuschArchiv at the Max-Reger-Institut/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe | 17: 3–8 |
| The correspondence of Robert Simpson with William Bebbington from original material at the Robert Simpson Society Archives, edited by Terry Hazell & Jürgen Schaarwächter | 17: 9–28 |
| Gleichenstein’s Hat. Beethoven Essays by Maynard Solomon (1989) | 17: 29–31 |
| Robert Simpson in conversation with Bruce Duffie via telephone (1991) | 17: 32–40 |
| Variations as finale (1982) | 18: 5–6 |
| On ‘completing’ unfinished master-pieces (1989) | 18: 7–11 |
| The Art of Fugue (1964/1980) | 18: 12–15 |
| More Bach: programme notes | 18: 16–17 |
| Reger: programme note | 18: 18 |
| Brahms: programme notes | 18: 19 |
| Orchestral Style (1947) | 19: 3–20 |
| A Note on the Symphonies of Mahler (1948) | 19: 21–24 |
| Debussy, Ravel, and Impressionism (1946) | 19: 25–29 |
| Sibelius and musical movement (1946) | 19: 30–32 |
| Tribute to Jascha Horenstein (1898–1973) | 20: 8–9 |
| Some recollections of Enescu | 20: 10–11 |
| Ianus Geminus: Music in Scandinavia | 20: 12–18 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphonies Nos. 14 & 21 (1969) | 21: 10–13 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 8 (1972) | 21: 14–15 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 10 (1972) | 21: 16–17 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 10 (1973) | 21: 18–21 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 9 (1976) | 21: 22–23 |
| Havergal Brian’s Symphonies Nos. 10 & 21 (1972) | 21: 24–26 |
| The Brian revival (1984) | 21: 27–29 |
| Brian’s “Gothic” – Robert Simpson in conversation with Stephen Johnson (1991) | 21: 30–33 |
| Textual accuracy in the “Gothic” (1979) | 21: 34 |
| Introduction to the Guide to Modern Music on Records (1958) | 21: 35–38 |
Kaikhosru Sorabji
| Letters to Robert Simpson, edited by Jürgen Schaarwächter | 23: 2–22 |
Ronald Stevenson
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Matthew Taylor
| The Seventh Symphony. A conductor’s perspective | 3/4: 13–15 |
| Nature music in Robert Simpson — a personal response | 20: 3–4 |
| Remembering Robert Simpson. Twenty contributions (1997/2021) | 26: 11–37 |
Michael Tippett
| A Birthday Hansel (1981) | 1/2: 12–13 |
Harold Truscott
| The Origin of the First Symphony | 1/2: 11, 14–16 1/3: 25–26 |
John Turner
| Variations and Fugue for recorder and string quartet | 20: 5–7 |
John Underwood
| Working with Simpson | 1/3: 18–21 |
Gillian White
| Ninth Symphony. A radio discussion (1988) | 3/4: 16–20 |
Richard Whitehouse
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews | 24: 9–23 |
Arnold Whittall
| The Power of Robert Simpson – Robert Simpson: Composer, book reviews | 24: 9–23 |
Eric Wilson
| New Simpson Masterwork. [Introduction and Allegro on a Bass by Max Reger] (1988) | 3/2: 17–19 |