Performing Brahms

Klappentext Enhanced by an accompanying CD, this book presents documentary evidence of performance in Brahms's time. Zusammenfassung The music of Brahms is central to the lives of classical performers and listeners! but few know how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. Enhanced by a unique accompanying CD of historic recordings! this book brings most of the documentary evidence together in one volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. How different was Brahms's playing style from our own? Bernard D. Sherman; 2. Performing Brahms's music: clues from his letters Styra Avins; 3. Joachim's violin playing and the performance of Brahms's string music Clive Brown; 4. Metronome marks and timings Bernard D. Sherman; 5. Performance issues in A German Requiem Michael Musgrave with Appendix: 'Ein deutsches Requiem', Siegfried Ochs, introduced and translated by Michael Musgrave; 6. Fanny Davies and Brahms's late chamber music George S. Bozarth; 7. Flexible tempo and nuancing in orchestral music: Understanding Brahms's view of interpretation in his Second Piano Concerto and Fourth Symphony Robert Pascall and Philip Weller; 8. Brahms in the Meiningen Tradition: His Symphonies and Haydn Variations in the Markings by Fritz Steinbach Edited by Walter Blume, Excerpt: The First Symphony Walter Frisch (translation and introduction); 9. In search of Brahms's First Symphony: Steinbach, the Meiningen tradition and the recordings of Hermann Abendroth Walter Frisch; 10. Early trends in the recorded performance of Brahms's music Michael Musgrave; 11. Performing Brahms in the Style Hongrois Jonathan Bellman; 12. Brahms's musical world: balancing the evidence Robert Philip; Appendix: Introduction to supplementary CD and list of contents; Discography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Michael (University of London) Musgrave (Editore), Bernard D Sherman (Editore), Bernard D. Sherman (Editore), Michael Musgrave (Editore)
• Autori: Bernard D. Sherman, Michael Musgrave
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 15.10.2003
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica
• EAN: 9780521652735
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65273-5
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 18 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm
• Serie: Musical Performance and Reception; Musical Performance and Recept; Musical Performance and Reception; Musical Performance and Recept