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Classical music : the listener's companion / edited by Alexander Morin ; foreword by Harold C. Schonberg.

Other author/creatorMorin, Alexander (Alexander J.), editor.
Other author/creatorSchonberg, Harold C. writer of foreword.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoSan Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books ; Berkeley : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West, ©2002.
Descriptionxiv, 1201 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Third ear
Third ear. ^A519183
Contents Part I: Composers. Abel, Carl Friedrich -- Achron, Joseph -- Adam, Adolphe -- Adams, John -- Addinsell, Richard -- Adés, Thomas -- Alain, Jehan -- Albéniz, Isaac -- Albert, Eugene d' -- Albert, Stephen -- Albinoni, Tomaso -- Albright, William -- Alfonso el Sabio -- Alfvén, Hugo -- Alkan, Charles-Valentin -- Alwyn, William -- Amram, David -- Antheil, George -- Arensky, Anton -- Argento, Dominick -- Arne, Thomas -- Arnold, Malcolm -- Arriaga, Kurt -- Asia, Daniel -- Atterberg, Kurt -- Auber, Daniel-Francois -- Auric, Georges -- Babbitt, Milton -- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel -- Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich -- Bach, Johann Sebastian -- Bach, PDQ -- Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann -- Balakirev, Mily -- Barber, Samuel -- Bartok, Bela -- Bax, Arnold -- Beach, Amy (Mrs. H.H.A.) -- Beethoven, Ludwig van -- Bellini, Vincenzo -- Bennett, Rich and Rodney -- Berg, Alban -- Bergsma, William -- Berio, Luciano -- Berlioz, Hector -- Bernstein, Leonard -- Berwald, Franz -- Biber, Heinrich von -- Birtwistle, Harrison -- Bizet, Georges -- Blacher, Boris -- Blackwood, Easley -- Bliss, Arthur -- Bloch, Ernest -- Blomdahl, Karl-Birger -- Blow, John -- Boccherini, Luigi -- Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de -- Boito, Arrigo -- Bolcom, William -- Borodin, Alexander -- Bottesini, Giovanni -- Boulanger, Lili -- Boulez, Pierre -- Bowles, Paul -- Boyce, William -- Brahms, Johannes -- Brian, Havergal -- Bridge, Frank -- Britten, Benjamin -- Bruch, Max -- Bruckner, Anton -- Bryars, Gavin -- Busoni, Ferruccio -- Butterworth, George -- Buxtehude, Dietrich -- Byrd, William -- Cage, John -- Canteloube, Joseph -- Carissimi, Giacomo -- Carter, Elliot -- Casella, Alfredo -- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario -- Catalani, Alfredo -- Cavalli, Pier Francesco -- Chabrier, Emmanuel -- Chadwick, George Whitefield -- Chaminade, Cécile -- Charpentier, Gustave -- Charpentier, Marc-Antoine -- Chausson, Ernest -- Chávez, Carlos -- Cherubini, Luigi -- Chopin, Frédéric -- Cilea, Francesco -- Cimarosa, Domenico -- Clementi, Muzio -- Coates, Eric -- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel -- Copland, Aaron -- Corelli, Arcangelo -- Corigliano, John -- Couperin, Francois -- Cowell, Henry -- Crawford (Seeger), Ruth -- Creston, Paul -- Crumb, George -- Crusell, Bernhard Henrik -- Cui, César -- Czerny, Carl -- Dallapiccola, Luigi -- Danielpour, Richard -- Danzi, Franz -- Davies, Peter Maxwell -- Debussy, Claude -- Delibes, Léo -- Delius, Frederick -- Dello Joio, Norman -- Diamond, David -- Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von -- Dohnányi, Ernst [Ernö] von -- Donizetti, Gaetano -- Dowland, John -- Draeseke, Felix -- Druckman, Jacob -- Dufay, Guillaume -- Dukas, Paul -- Duparc, Henri -- Dupré, Marcel -- Duruflé, Maurice -- Dussek, Jan Ladislav -- Dutilleux, Henri -- Dvorak, Antonin -- Egk, Werner -- Eisler, Hanns -- Elgar, Edward -- Eller, Heino -- Enescu, Georges -- Erb, Donald -- Erkel, Ferenc -- Falla, Manuel de -- Fasch, Johann Friedrich -- Faure, Gabriel -- Feldman, Morton -- Ferneyhough, Brian -- Fibich, Zdenek -- Field, John -- Fine, Irving -- Finzi, Gerald -- Flagello, Nicholas -- Flotow, Friedrich von -- Floyd Carlisle -- Foote, Arthur -- Foss, Lukas -- Foster, Stephen Collins -- Francaix, Jean -- Franck, Cesar -- Frankel, Benjamin -- Frescobaldi, Girolamo -- Froberger, Johann Jakob -- Furtwangler, Wilhelm -- Gabrieli, Giovanni -- Gade, Niels Wilhelm -- Gay, John and Pepusch, Johann -- Geminiani, Francesco -- Gerhard, Roberto -- Gershwin, George -- Gesualdo, Don Carlo -- Gibbons, Orlando -- Ginastera, Alberto -- Giordano, Umberto -- Giuliani, Mauro -- Glass, Philip -- Glazunov, Alexander -- Glière, Reinhold -- Glinka, Mikhail -- Gluck, Christoph Willibald -- Godowsky, Leopold -- Goetz, Hermann -- Goldmark, Karl -- Gorecki, Henryk-Mikolaj -- Gossec, Francois-Joseph -- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau -- Gould, Morton -- Gounod, Charles -- Grainger, Percy -- Granados, Enrique -- Grieg, Edvard -- Griffes, Charles Tomlinson -- Grofé, Ferde -- Gubaidulina, Sofia -- Guilmant, Alexandre -- Hahn, Reynaldo -- Halévy, (Jacques) Fromental -- Halvorsen, Johan -- Hamerik, Asger -- Handel, George Frideric -- Hanson, Howard -- Harbison, John -- Harris, Roy -- Harrison, Lou -- Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius -- Hartmann, Karl Amadeus -- Harty, Hamilton -- Hasse, Johann Adolph -- Haydn, (Franz) Joseph -- Haydn, Michael -- Henze, Hans Werner -- Herbert, Victor -- Herrmann, Bernard -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Hindemith, Paul -- Hoiby, Lee -- Holmboe, Vagn -- Holst, Gustav -- Honegger, Arthur -- Hovhaness, Alan -- Howells, Herbert -- Hummel, Johann Nepomuk -- Humperdinck, Engelbert -- Husa, Karel -- Ibert, Jacques -- Imbrie, Andres -- Indy, Vincent d' -- Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail -- Ireland, John -- Ivanovs, Jānis -- Ives, Charles -- Janácek, Leos -- Joachim, Joseph -- Jolivet, André -- Joplin, Scott -- Josquin Desprez -- Kabalevsky, Dmitri -- Kalinnikov, Vasily -- Kálmán, Imre -- Kancheli, Giya -- Kernis, Aaron Jay -- Ketèlbey, Albert W. -- Khatchaturian, Aram -- Kirchner, Leon -- Klami, Uuno -- Knussen, Oliver -- Kodály, Zoltán -- Koechlin, Charles -- Kokkonen, Joonas -- Korngold, Erich Wolfgang -- Kraus, Joseph Martin -- Kreisler, Fritz -- Krenek, Ernst -- Krommer, Franz -- Kuhlau, Friedrich -- Kupferman, Meyer -- Kurtág, György -- Lajtha, László -- Lalo, Edouard -- Langgaard, Rued -- Langlais, Jean -- Larsen, Libby -- Larsson, Lars-Erik -- Lassus, Orlando de -- Lawes, William -- Leclair, Jean-Marie -- Lees, Benjamin -- Lehár, Franz -- Leifs, Jón -- Lekeu, Giullaume -- Leoncavallo, Ruggero -- Liadov, Anatoly -- Ligeti, György -- Lindberg, Magnus -- Liszt, Franz -- Lloyd, George -- Locatelli, Pietro -- Locke, Matthew -- Loewe, Carl -- Lortzing, Albert -- Lully, Jean-Baptiste -- Lutoslawski, Witold --
Contents MacDowell, Edward -- Machaut, Guillaume de -- Maderna, Bruno -- Magnard, Albéric -- Mahler, Gustav -- Marais, Marin -- Martin, Frank -- Martinů, Bohuslav -- Mascagni, Pietro -- Massenet, Jules -- Mathias, William -- Mayr, (Johannes) Simon -- McCabe, John -- McKinley, William Thomas -- Medtner, Nikolai -- Méhul, Étienne-Nicolas -- Mendelssohn, Felix -- Mennin, Peter -- Menotti, Gian Carlo -- Mercadante, Saverio -- Messiaen, Olivier -- Meyerbeer, Giacomo -- Miaskovsky, Nikolai -- Milhaud, Darius -- Moeran, E.J. -- Mompou, Federico -- Moniuszko, Stanislaw -- Monk, Meredith -- Montemezzi, Italo -- Monteverdi, Claudio -- Moore, Douglas -- Moscheles, Ignaz -- Moszkowski, Moritz -- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- Mussorgsky, Modest -- Nancarrow, Conlan -- Nicolai, Otto -- Nielsen, Carl -- Nono, Luigi -- Nørgărd, Per -- Novák, Vitĕzslav -- Obrecht, Jacob -- Ockeghem, Johannes -- Offenbach, Jacques -- Orff, Carl -- Ornstein, Leo -- Pachelbel, Johann -- Paderewski, Ignace Jan -- Paganini, Niccolò -- Paine, John Knowles -- Paisiello, Giovanni -- Palestrina, Giovanni -- Parry, Hubert -- Pärt, Arvo -- Partch, Harry -- Paulus, Stephen -- Penderecki, Krzysztof -- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista -- Perle, George -- Persichetti, Vincent -- Pettersson, Allan -- Pfitzner, Hans -- Piazzolla, Astor -- Pierné, Gabriel -- Piston, Walter -- Ponce, Manuel -- Ponchielli, Amilcare -- Poulenc, Francis -- Praetorius, Michael -- Prokofiev, Sergei -- Puccini, Giacomo -- Purcell, Henry -- Quantz, Johann Joachim -- Rabaud, Henri -- Rachmaninoff, Sergei -- Raff, Joachim -- Rameau, Jean-Philippe -- Ran, Shulamit -- Rangström, Ture -- Rautavaara, Einojuhani -- Ravel, Maurice -- Rawsthorne, Alan -- Reger, Max -- Reich, Steve -- Reicha, Anton -- Reinecke, Carl -- Respighi, Ottorino -- Revueltas, Silvestre -- Reynolds, Roger -- Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von -- Rheinberger, Josef -- Riegger, Wallingford -- Rihm, Wolfgang -- Riley, Terry -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai -- Rochberg, George -- Rodrigo, Joaquin -- Rorem, Ned -- Rosenberg, Hilding -- Rossini, Gioacchino -- Rota, Nino -- Rouse, Christopher -- Roussel, Albert -- Rózsa, Miklós -- Rubbra, Edmund -- Rubinstein, Anton -- Ruders, Poul -- Ruggles, Carl -- Rutter, John -- Saariaho, Kaija -- Saeverud, Harald -- Saint-Saëns, Camille -- Salieri, Antonio -- Sallinen, Aulis -- Sarasate, Pablo de -- Satie, Erik -- Scarlatti, Alessandro -- Scarlatti, Domenico -- Scelsi, Giacinto -- Schafer, R. Murray -- Scharwenka, Xaver -- Schickele, Peter -- Schmidt, Franz -- Schmitt, Florent -- Schnittke, Alfred -- Schoeck, Othmar -- Schoenberg, Arnold -- Schreker, Franz -- Schubert, Franz -- Schuller, Gunther -- Schuman, William -- Schumann, Robert -- Schütz, Heinrich -- Schwantner, Joseph -- Scriabin, Alexander -- Sculthorpe, Peter -- Sessions, Roger -- Shchedrin, Rodion -- Shostakovich, Dmitri -- Sibelius, Jean -- Simpson, Robert -- Sinding, Christian -- Smetana, Bedrich -- Soler, Padre Antonio -- Sor, Fernando -- Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji -- Sousa, John Philip -- Sowerby, Leo -- Spohr, Ludwig (Louis) -- Stamitz, Carl -- Stanford, Charles Villiers -- Starer, Robert -- Stenhammar, Wilhelm -- Still, William Grant -- Stockhausen, Karlheinz -- The Strauss Family -- Strauss, Johann II -- Strauss, Richard -- Stravinsky, Igor -- Subotnick, Morton -- Suk, Josef -- Sullivan, Arthur -- Suppé, Franz von -- Svendsen, Johan Severin -- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon -- Szymanowski, Karol -- Takemitsu, Toru -- Tallis, Thomas -- Taneyev, Sergei -- Tansman, Alexandre -- Tartini, Giuseppe -- Tavener, John -- Taverner, John -- Tchaikovsky, Piotr -- Telemann, Georg Philipp -- Thomas, Ambroise -- Thompson, Randall -- Thomson, Virgil -- Tippett, Michael -- Tobias, Rudolf -- Toch, Ernst -- Torelli, Giuseppe -- Tosti, Francesco Paolo -- Tournemire, Charles -- Tower, Joan -- Tubin, Eduard -- Turina, Joaquín -- Vanhal, Johann Baptist -- Varèse, Edgar -- Vasks, Pēteris -- Vaughan Williams, Ralph -- Verdi, Giuseppe -- Victoria, Tomás Luis de -- Vierne, Louis -- Vieuxtemps, Henri -- Villa-Lobos, Heitor -- Viotti, Giovanni Battista -- Vivaldi, Antonio -- Volkmann, Robert -- Wagner, Richard -- Walton, William -- Ward, John -- Warlock, Peter -- Weber, Carl Maria von -- Webern, Anton -- Weill, Kurt -- Weinberger, Jaromír -- Weiner, Leó -- Weiss, Silvius Leopold -- Widor, Charles-Marie -- Wieniawski, Henryk -- Wilder, Alac -- Wirén, Dag -- Wolf, Hugo -- Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno -- Wolpe, Stefan -- Wuorinen, Charles -- Xenakis, Iannis -- Ysaÿe, Eugène -- Yun, Isang -- Zappa, Frank -- Zelenka, Jan Dismas -- Zemlinsky, Alexander von -- Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe.
Contents Part II: Genres. Christmas music -- Eastern chant -- Electronic music -- Film music -- Gilbert and Sullivan -- Gregorian chant -- Jewish music -- Latin sounds and rhythms -- Medieval music -- Music for children -- Overtures -- Renaissance music -- Zarzuela.
Contents Part III: Instruments and artists. Brass instruments. Horn ; Trombone ; Trumpet ; Tuba ; Euphonium ; Brass ensembles -- Choirs -- Guitar and lute. Guitar ; Lute -- Harp -- Harpsichord -- Organ -- Percussion instruments -- Piano -- Singers. Sopranos ; Mezzo-Sopranos and contraltos ; Tenors ; Baritones and basses -- Strings. Cello ; Double bass ; Viola ; Violin -- Woodwinds. Bassoon ; Clarinet ; English horn ; Flute ; Oboe ; Recorder ; Saxophone.
Abstract Classical music's long history makes its body of recordings among the most complex to decipher--especially in light of today's reissues, compilations, box sets, new releases, independent labels, and out-of-print discoveries. The key to enjoying classical music is interpretation. Do you like the renditions that are tightly controlled or relaxed? Do you prefer modern or "period" instruments? How important is the quality of sound? This accessible guide helps you identify the recordings--the musical interpretations--that please you most, whether you're well-traveled in the classical world or just embarking on the journey. A well-balanced exploration of classical music past and present, this book examines major works by 500 composers worldwide. It reviews all the important recordings of symphonies, operas, concertos, choral pieces, chamber music, and more, performed by an international spectrum of premier conductors, musicians, and vocalists. From Gregorian chant to Philip Glass, you'll discover unique musical adventures. Thought-provoking critiques define distinctive recordings, while vivid essays describe genres, composers, and the powerful partnerships between individual instruments and outstanding performers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
LCCN 2001052702
ISBN0879306386
ISBN9780879306380

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