Music sounded out : essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts / Alfred Brendel.

Author/creator Brendel, Alfred
Format Book
Edition1st American edition
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991.
Descriptionviii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents A Mozart player gives himself advice -- Must classical music be entirely serious? -- 1. The sublime in reverse -- 2. Beethoven's Diabelli Variations -- The text and its guardians: Notes on Beethoven's Piano Concertos -- Beethoven's new style -- Schubert's last sonatas -- Testing the grown-up player: Schumann's 'Kinderszenen' -- The noble Liszt -- Liszt's 'Années de pèleringe' I and II -- Liszt's B minor Sonata -- Liszt's Bitterness of heart -- Busoni's 'Doktor Faust' -- Furtwängler -- A case for live recordings -- On recitals and programmes -- Two interviews: Bach and the piano (with Terry Snow) -- On Schnabel and interpretation (with Konrad Wolff).
Abstract Comments on music, musicians, and matters of performance.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 90048279
ISBN0374216517 :

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML60.B84 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold