J.B. Priestley's Particular Pleasures

Last modified: 22 March 2009

J.B. Priestley’s 1975 book Particular Pleasures consists of brief commentaries on his favourite paintings, musical works, actors, and comedians.

Painting

Pieter Brugel the Elder (1525-69) - Hunters in the Snow
Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Gilles
William Hogarth (1697-1764) - The Graham Children
Joseph Highmore (1629-1780) (sic) - Mr Oldham and His Guests
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) - The Painter's Daughters with a Cat
John Constable (1776-1837) - Study for The Hay Wain and Weymouth Bay
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) - Princess de Lieven
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - A First Rate Taking in Stores and A Tree in a Storm
John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) - A Dismasted Brig
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) - Avignon from the West
Honoré Daumier (1808-79) - Don Quixote
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) - Road near Mont Sainte-Victoire
Alfred W. Elmore (1815-81) - Nude
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) - Aha oe feii? What, are you jealous?
Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1932) - Café Scene
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) - La Table
Jean Edouard Vuillard (1868-1945) - Indoor Scene with Children
Sir William Nicholson (1872-1914) - Begonias
Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914) - The Garden, Rowlandson House
Paul Nash (1889-1946) - Totes Meer
Nicolas de Staël (1914-55) - Soccer Players
Paul Delvaux (1897 - ) - Hands
Edna Clarke Hall (1881 - ) - Family Group

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) - Overtures
Hector Berlioz (1803-69) - Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Robert Schumann (1810-56) - Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Franz Liszt (1811-86) - First Movement of the Faust Symphony
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Falstaff
Bedrich Smetana (1824-84) - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Anton Bruckner (1824-96) - Scherzo of Symphony No. 7 in E
Johannes Brahms (1833-97) - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Georges Bizet (1838-97) - Symphony in C
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Symphony No. 1 in A flat, Op. 55
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Das Liede von der Erde, "Der Abschied"
Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) - Orchestral Suite, La Mer
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Tone Poem for Orchestra, Don Juan
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Ballet, The Seasons, Op. 67
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Finale of Symphony No. 5. in E flat major, Op. 82
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) - Symphony No. 3 in A minor
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - Orchestral Suite, The Planets, Op. 32
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - La Valse, Poème Choréographique
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) - Music for Strings, Percussion and Orchestra
Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) - A Cantata and a Prayer
Sir William Walton (1902 - ) Orchestral Suite, Façade