Song on record

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Song on record

edited by Alan Blyth

Cambridge University Press, 1986-1988

  • : set
  • v. 1. Lieder
  • v. 2.

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Includes indexes

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Volume

v. 1. Lieder ISBN 9780521268448

Description

This first volume of Song on Record, devoted to Lieder, provides a critical guide to performance on record from the early days of the gramophone to the present day. Alan Blyth, with a team of distinguished writers and critics, has covered comprehensively the main strands of each composer's output in the field, from Haydn and Mozart to Schoenberg and Berg, together with illuminating and entertaining discussion of the differing interpretations found on the selected recordings. The book is thus as much a history of the Lied and its interpretation as a guide to available recordings and will be of interest to musicologists and performers as well as to music lovers and record collectors.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Haydn and Mozart Peter Branscombe
  • 2. Beethoven David Hamilton
  • 3. Schubert: Die schoene Mullerin Alan Blyth
  • 4. Schubert: Winterreise Hilary Finch
  • 5. Schubert: Schwanengesang Robin Holloway
  • 6. Schubert: Ten songs John Steane
  • 7. Loewe Will Crutchfield
  • 8. Mendelssohn Will Crutchfield
  • 9. Schumann: Liederkreis Graham Johnson
  • 10. Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben Jeremy Sams
  • 11. Schumann: Dichterliebe Alan Blyth
  • 12. Schumann: Ten songs Alan Blyth
  • 13. Liszt Will Crutchfield
  • 14. Brahms: Vier ernste Gesange Alan Blyth
  • 15. Brahms: Ten songs John Steane
  • 16. Wagner: Wesendonck lieder John Steane
  • 17. Wolf: Moerike songbook Robin Holloway
  • 18. Moerike: Goethe songs Hilary Finch
  • 19. Moerike: Spanish and Italian songbooks Alan Blyth
  • 20. Mahler: Song-cycles Michael Kennedy
  • 21. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Andrew Clements
  • 22. Strauss: Ten songs Alan Blyth
  • 23. Strauss: Four last songs Michael Kennedy
  • 24. Schoenberg and Berg David Murray
  • Index of singers' names.
Volume

v. 2. ISBN 9780521331555

Description

This second volume of Song on Record covers the repertory of song not included in the category of Lieder. It contains chapters on the major French composers, on Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish and American song, on Bartok and Janacek, Britten and English song, and ends with a bonne bouche entitled 'Encore'. Once again Alan Blyth has brought together a distinguished group of contributors to provide a valuable and informed discussion of interpretation. Indispensable for record collectors, it is also fascinating reading for all musicians and music lovers with an interest in song.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Berlioz David Cairns
  • 2. Duparc Alan Blyth
  • 3. Gounod, Chabrier, Chausson, Hahn Alan Blyth
  • 4. Faure: ten songs Richard Fairman
  • 5. Faire: song cycles Richard Fairman
  • 6. Debussy David Murray
  • 7. Ravel Jeremy Sams
  • 8. Poulenc Jeremy Sams
  • 9. Spanish song Michael Oliver
  • 10. Mussorgsky Stephen Johnson
  • 11. Tchaikovsky: ten songs David M. Jackson
  • 12. Rachmaninov: ten songs David M. Jackson
  • 13. Scandinavian song Robert Layton
  • 14. Bartok and Janacek David Murray
  • 15. Britten Michael Kennedy
  • 16. English song John Steane
  • 17. American song Will Crutchfield
  • 18. Encore John Steane
  • Indices.

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