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Michael Steinberg follows his warmly received listener's guides on the symphony and the concerto with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, a book of descriptive-analytical essays on the great masterpieces in the supremely inspiring repertoire for chorus and orchestra. This collection includes illuminating commentary on such works as Handel's Messiah, Bach's Passion settings and B-minor Mass, the Mozart Requiem, and the great choral works of Haydn and Beethoven. Steinberg also discusses the monuments of the Romantic era such as the stupendous Requiem settings of Berlioz and Verdi as well as the supremely tender one by Fauré. Venturing into the twentieth century and the dawning of the twenty-first, he provides insights into the great achievements of Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, and, nearer our own time, such masters as John Adams. Steinberg's writes without jargon, in language that grabs the technically untrained music-lover, but which is still of riveting interest to conductors, singers, and others who make music their life. His guidebook brings impeccable scholarship, insight into the spiritual content of the works, a deep love of music, and surprising corners of humor and whimsy.

Table of Contents:
Introduction A Word to Nonbelievers--and Believers Adams: Harmonium Bach Introduction Bach: The Passions Bach: Saint John Passion Bach: Saint Matthew Passion Bach: Magnificat Bach: Mass in B minor Beethoven: Missa solemnis Berlioz: Requiem Brahms Introduction Brahms: A German Requiem Brahms: The Shorter Choral Works Brahms: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) Brahms: N:anie (Threnody) Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Britten: War Requiem Cherubini: Requiem in C minor Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia (Songs of Imprisonment) Dvorák: Stabat mater Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Fauré: Requiem Handel: Messiah Handel-Mozart: Messiah Haydn: Introduction Haydn: The Oratorios Haydn: The Creation Haydn: The Seasons Haydn: Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass) Honegger: Le Roi David (King David) Janácek: Glagolilic Mass Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) Mozart Introduction Mozart: Mass in C minor Mozart: Requiem Orff: Carmina burana Rachmaninoff: The Bells Schmidt: Das Buch mit dieben Siegelm (The Book With Seven Seals) Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd Stravinsky Introduction Stravinsky: Canticum acrum Stravinsky: Persephone Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Stravinsky: The Wedding Tippett: A Child of Our Time Vaughan Williams Introduction Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Verdi: Requiem Walton: Belshazzar's Feast


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195340662
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 521 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195340663
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Listener's Guide
  • Width: 163 mm


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