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9780521652735

Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521652735

  • ISBN10:

    0521652731

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Enhanced by an accompanying CD, this book presents documentary evidence of performance in Brahms's time.

Table of Contents

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.

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