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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... thought that he could not realize a long-cherished plan to write a book of his own about some of the choral masterworks he so deeply understood. It would have been a work of extraordinary insight and originality. I first saw Robert in ...
... thought that he could not realize a long-cherished plan to write a book of his own about some of the choral masterworks he so deeply understood. It would have been a work of extraordinary insight and originality. I first saw Robert in ...
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... 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 , with her miraculously ...
... 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 , with her miraculously ...
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... thought we stood at the door of another world and it might open and we go in . Well , there is that door and such a world.5 Indeed , the door is there . It is not locked . When the Bach Passions and the Missa solemnis , Sancta Civitas ...
... thought we stood at the door of another world and it might open and we go in . Well , there is that door and such a world.5 Indeed , the door is there . It is not locked . When the Bach Passions and the Missa solemnis , Sancta Civitas ...
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... thought , abandoned al- most immediately , that he might set poems from Wallace Stevens's debut collection by that name . A question I always like to ask a composer is : " What was the first thing you knew about this piece ? " The ...
... thought , abandoned al- most immediately , that he might set poems from Wallace Stevens's debut collection by that name . A question I always like to ask a composer is : " What was the first thing you knew about this piece ? " The ...
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... than anybody since Bach himself , cites as source Der Grünenden Jugend Nothwendige Gedancken ( Thoughts Necessary to Growing Youth ) by the Saxon poet and playwright Christian Weise . None 20 CHORAL MASTERWORKS : A LISTENER'S GUIDE 20.
... than anybody since Bach himself , cites as source Der Grünenden Jugend Nothwendige Gedancken ( Thoughts Necessary to Growing Youth ) by the Saxon poet and playwright Christian Weise . None 20 CHORAL MASTERWORKS : A LISTENER'S GUIDE 20.
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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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