Choral Masterworks:A Listener's GuideOxford University Press, USA, 22.04.2005 - 336 Seiten Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more than fifty illuminating essays on the classic choral masterworks, ranging from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, to works by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and many others. Steinberg spans the entire history of classical music, from such giants of the Romantic era as Verdi and Berlioz, to leading modern composers such as Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, to contemporary masters such as John Adams and Charles Wuorinen. For each piece, Steinberg includes a fascinating biographical account of the work's genesis, often spiced with wonderful asides, such as the true story of Mozart's Requiem--Salieri had nothing to do with the composition of it, nor did he poison Mozart, who most likely died of rheumatic fever. The author also includes an astute musical analysis of each piece, one that casual music lovers can easily appreciate and that musicians and more serious fans will find invaluable. The book also includes basic information such as the various movements of the work, the organization of the chorus and orchestra, and brief historical notes on early performances. More than twenty million Americans perform regularly in choirs or choruses. Choral Masterworks will appeal not only to concert goers and CD collectors, but also to this vast multitude of choral performers, an especially engaged and active community. |
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... soloists : Karl Erb , thought the greatest Evangelist of his time , and still unsurpassed ; the honey - voiced Gerhard Hüsch , from whose recordings I had first learned the Schubert song cycles , as Jesus ; the soprano Tiana Lemnitz ...
... soloists : Karl Erb , thought the greatest Evangelist of his time , and still unsurpassed ; the honey - voiced Gerhard Hüsch , from whose recordings I had first learned the Schubert song cycles , as Jesus ; the soprano Tiana Lemnitz ...
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... soloists (Evangelist and Jesus) and a solo. 1A good performance of one of the Passion settings by Heinrich Schütz, the greatest composer of Protestant church music before Bach, shows what wonders can be achieved without any of that ...
... soloists (Evangelist and Jesus) and a solo. 1A good performance of one of the Passion settings by Heinrich Schütz, the greatest composer of Protestant church music before Bach, shows what wonders can be achieved without any of that ...
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Michael Steinberg. Tenor and bass soloists (Evangelist and Jesus) and a solo quartet of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass (for arias and the roles of Pilate, Peter, servant, and maid); four-part chorus. Two flutes, two oboes (doubling oboes ...
Michael Steinberg. Tenor and bass soloists (Evangelist and Jesus) and a solo quartet of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass (for arias and the roles of Pilate, Peter, servant, and maid); four-part chorus. Two flutes, two oboes (doubling oboes ...
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... soloists for the parts of the Evangelist and Jesus, and a solo quartet of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass for the arias and the roles of Pontius Pilate, Judas, Peter, the High Priest and two other priests, two maids, Pilate's wife, and ...
... soloists for the parts of the Evangelist and Jesus, and a solo quartet of soprano, alto, tenor, and bass for the arias and the roles of Pontius Pilate, Judas, Peter, the High Priest and two other priests, two maids, Pilate's wife, and ...
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Inhalt
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BEETHOVEN | 45 |
BERLIOZ | 61 |
BRAHMS | 68 |
BRITTEN | 86 |
CHERUBINI | 97 |
JANÁCEK | 186 |
KODÁLY | 194 |
MENDELSSOHN | 200 |
MOZART | 210 |
ORFF | 230 |
RACHMANINOFF | 238 |
SCHMIDT | 243 |
SESSIONS | 252 |
DALLAPICCOLA | 104 |
DVORÁK | 113 |
ELGAR | 119 |
FAURÉ | 131 |
HANDEL | 138 |
HAYDN | 155 |
HONEGGER | 177 |
STRAVINSKY | 257 |
TIPPETT | 280 |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | 288 |
VERDI | 301 |
WALTON | 311 |
WUORINEN | 317 |
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