Kenneth Hamilton (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

Herausgegeben von Hamilton, Kenneth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The music of Franz Liszt is becoming ever more popular in the concert-hall and has been the subject of much ground-breaking recent research, but there are few books available for a general readership that present up-to-date scholarship in an accessible fashion. Written by some of the leading specialistsin the field, The Cambridge Companion to Liszt provides an authoritative overview of Liszts music, its context and performance practice in a way that will be invaluable to music professionals and amateurs alike.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Music
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521644624
• ISBN-10: 0521644623
• Artikelnr.: 14767248

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Hamilton is pianist-in-residence and senior lecturer in music at the University of Birmingham, UK. A virtuoso pianist with an international reputation, he is also an authority on Liszt and has a special interest in nineteenth-century performing techniques. He is the author of the Cambridge Music handbook Liszt: Sonata in B Minor.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The romantic artist Katharine Ellis; 2. Inventing Liszts life: early biography and autobiography Alexander Rehding; 3. Liszt in the twentieth century James Deaville; 4. Liszt's early and Weimar piano works Kenneth Hamilton; 5. Liszt's late piano works: a survey James M. Baker; 6. Liszt's late piano works: larger forms James M. Baker; 7. Liszt's piano concerti: a lost tradition Anna Celenza; 8. Performing Liszts piano music Kenneth Hamilton; 9. Liszt's Lieder Monika Hennemann; 10. Liszt's symphonic poems and symphonies Reeves Shulstad; 11. Liszt's sacred choral music Dolores Pesce.

Rezensionen

'... a reliable survey of most of Liszt's music ... concise and thought-provoking, too.' BBC Music Magazine