Pierre Fournier : cellist in a landscape with figures / Angela Hughes.

Author/creator Hughes, Angela, 1926-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, ©1998.
Descriptionxvi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword / by Felix Aprahamian -- Preface -- Part I. A bridge and two families ; A boy in Auteuil ; The end of a holiday ; 'My career started in the greatest obscurity' ; Listening to the others ; First tours ; Lyda in St. Petersburg and Berlin ; Pierre and Lyda ; Occupation -- Part II. Aftermath ; New horizons ; 'Four spirits' ; Old friends ; New world and old scores ; Handwriting ; Kaleidoscope ; L'Autre Pierre ; Further afield ; Not only for cellists ; The master -- Part III. Force majeure ; Secret garden ; Friends and a working relationship ; 'Weight and serenity' ; Two concertos ; Partnership ; Stress and empathy ; Perfect cadence -- Appendix 1. A Bach chorale ; Appendix 2. Fournier's exercise in bow control ; Appendix 3. Walton concerto: composer's indications -- Temoignages: musicians on Pierre Fournier.
General noteErrata slip inserted.
Bibliography noteDiscography: pages 173-208.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index.
LCCN 97033080
ISBN1859284221 (alk. paper)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML418.F814 H84 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold