| Contents |
Composers. Luciano Berio -- Leonard Bernstein -- Pierre Boulez -- Benjamin Britten (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) -- John Cage -- Aaron Copland -- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies -- Hans Werner Henze -- Paul Hindemith -- Zoltán Kodály -- György Ligeti -- Witold Lutosławski -- Gian Carlo Menotti -- Olivier Messiaen -- Darius Milhaud -- Dmitry Shostakovich = Dmitri Schostakowitsch = Dimitri Chostakovitch -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky = Igor Strawinsky = Igor Stravinski -- Tōru Takemitsu -- Virgil Thomson -- Sir Michael Tippett -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Sir William Walton -- Conductors. Ernest Ansermet -- Sir John Barbirolli -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Karl Böhm -- Sir Adrian Boult -- Sir Colin Davis -- Antal Dorati -- Carlo Maria Giulini -- Bernard Haitink -- Herbert von Karajan -- Rudolf Kempe -- Otto Klemperer -- Erich Kleiber -- Joseph Krips -- Rafael Kubelík -- Lorin Maazel -- Igor Markevich = Igor Markewitsch = Igor Markévitch -- Pierre Monteux -- Charles Munch -- Eugene Ormandy -- André Previn -- Gennady Rozhdestvensky = Gennadi Roschdestwenski = Gennadi Rojdestvenski -- Sir Malcolm Sargent -- Wolfgang Sawallisch -- Sir Georg Solti -- Leopold Stokowski -- Evgeny Svetlanov = Jewgeni Swetlanow -- George Szell -- Conductors of the Younger Generation = Dirigenten der jüngeren Generation = Une nouvelle génération de chefs d'orchestre: Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Neeme Järvi, Seiji Ozawa -- Conductors as instrumentalists = Dirigenten als Solisten = Chefs d'orchestre-instrumentalistes: Leopold Stokowski, Sir John Barbirolli, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta -- Performers. Claudio Arrau -- Alfred Brendel -- Pablo Casals -- Shura Cherkassky -- Sir Clifford Curzon -- Jacqueline Du Pré -- Pierre Fournier -- Emil Gilels -- Glenn Gould -- Wilhelm Kempff -- Yehudi Menuhin (Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon) -- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli -- John Ogdon -- David Oistrakh = David Oistrach = David Oïstrakh -- Sviatoslav Ricther = Swjatoslaw Richter -- Mstislav Rostropovich = Mstislaw Rostropowitsch = Mstislav Rostropovitch -- Artur Rubinstein -- Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, John Williams -- Rudolf Serkin -- Isaac Stern -- Paul Tortelier -- Musicans relaxing = Wie die Musiker sich entspannen = Les musiciens se détendent: Antal Dorati, Sir John Barbirolli, Emil Gilels, Igor and David Oistrakh, Solomon and Benno Moiseiwitsch, Daniel Barenboim, John Ogdon, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern -- Performers of the Younger Generation = Musiker der jüngeren Generation = Interprètes de la jeune génération: Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich, Maurizio Pollini, Viktoria Postnikova, Daniel Barenboim, Radu Lapu, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Murray Perahia, Michel Béroff. |
| Abstract |
Portraits and action shots of a galaxy of composers, conductors and instrumentalists from the prolific decades following the Second World War, intimately observed by the London-based photographer Eric Auerbach, in rehearsal, performance and relaxation. Included in the book are over 70 biographical commentaries rich with insights and anecdotes. Such giants as Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Strauss, maestros Beecham, Klemperer and Stokowski, instrumentalists Casals, Menuhin and Rubinstein; from the generation of new music of the 1960s Boulez, Henze, Stockhausen; through to younger-generation interpreters Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Du Pré, and many more. Erich Auerbach was trained as a musician and remained an enthusiastic amateur pianist all his life. But his passion for music found its fullest expression through the lens of his camera, and this book offers a panoramic summary of his musical photography from the 1930s to 1975. Combined with his informal approach and utter lack of self-importance, this love of music earned him the friendship of many distinguished musicians. It was his intimate understanding of music and the role of the interpretative artist that was the secret of Auerbach's art. In the pictures in this book it is the musician's ear as much as the photographer's eye that produces such intimately expressive results, the personal, psychological and musical observation that gives Auerbach's record of the post-war decades its uniquely revealing quality. |
