| Description |
xiii, 325 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision -- Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art -- Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) -- On Richard Strauss -- Die Walküre, Aida, X -- Music and feminism -- Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) -- Middle age and performers -- The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos -- The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni -- Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum -- Giulio Cesare -- Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung -- Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) -- Peter Sellars's Mozart -- András Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- Richard Strauss -- Wagner and the Met's Ring -- Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust) -- Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) -- Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts) -- Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer -- Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) -- Musical retrospection -- The bard festival -- The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner -- Music as gesture (on Solti) -- Les troyens -- Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life) -- 32 short films about Glenn Gould -- Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation) -- Why listen to Boulez? -- Hindemith and Mozart -- Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner -- In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius) -- On Fidelio -- Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress) -- Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy: an autobiography -- Bach for the masses -- Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries) -- Glenn Gould, the virtuoso as intellectual -- Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician) -- Barenboim and the Wagner taboo -- Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven). |
| Subject |
Musical criticism.
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Musical criticism. |
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Opera -- Reviews.
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Opera. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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| Subject |
Operas -- Performances -- 20th century.
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Operas -- Performances. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Concerts -- Reviews.
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Concerts. |
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Music -- Book reviews.
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Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Book reviews.
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Reviews.
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Book reviews.
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| ISBN |
9780231139366 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231139365 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780231511551 electronic |
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0231511558 electronic |
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