The Substance of Things Heard - Writings about Music

A choice selection of essays, reviews and interviews providing insights into musical performance, composition in the late 20th century and very early 21st, and the nature of opera.

List of contents

preface
acknowledgments

1. a debut
2. Berio
3. paths to Montsalvat
4. Carter
5. da lontano
6. Gubaidulina
7. a handful of pianists
8. Purcell 1955
9. around New York
10. Tippett
11. being in Assisi
12. Boulez
13. the composer's voice
14. Mozart 1991
15. a decade of Don Giovannis
16. Henze
17. operatic passions
18. Vivier
19. at the movies
20 Schoenberg on the stage
21. five British composers
22. Lachenmann
23. mapping Mtsensk
24. Stockhausen
25. behind the Rusting Curtain
26. Verdi at the Met
27. a quintet of singers
28. Schnittke
29. how it was, maybe
30. Reich
31. tracks in Allemonde
32. Birtwistle
33. a departure

further reading and listening
index

About the author

Paul Griffiths

Product details

• Authors: Paul Griffiths
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9781580462068
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-206-8
• No. of pages: 395
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 233 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks