Substance of Things Heard (eBook)

Writings about Music

Paul Griffiths (Autor)

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2005
395 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-58046-648-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A choice selection of essays, reviews and interviews providing insights into musical performance, composition in the late 20th century and very early 21st, and the nature of opera.Paul Griffiths offers his own personal selection of some of his most substantial and imaginative articles and concert reviews from over three decades of indefatigable concertgoing around the world. He reports on premieres and other important performances of works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Steve Reich, as well as Harrison Birtwistle and other important British figures. Griffiths vividly conveys the vision, aura, and idiosyncrasies of prominent pianists, singers, and conductors [such as Herbert von Karajan], and debates changing styles of performing Monteverdi and Purcell. A particular delight is his response to the worldof opera, including Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande [six contrasting productions], Pavarotti and Domingo in Verdi at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron, and two wildly different Jonathan Miller versions of Mozart's Don Giovanni. From the author's preface: "e;We cannot say what music is. Yet we are verbal creatures, and strive with words to cast a net around it, knowing most of this immaterial stuff will evadecapture. The stories that follow cover a wide range of events over a period of great change. Yet the net's aim was always the same, to catch the substance of things heard. "e;Criticism has to work largely by analogy and metaphor. This is no limitation. It is largely through such verbal ties that music is linked to other sorts of experience, not least the natural world and the orchestra of our feelings."e; Paul Griffiths's reviews and articleshave appeared extensively in both Britain [Times, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement] and the United States [New Yorker, New York Times]. He has written numerous books on Bartok, Cage, Messiaen, Boulez, Maxwell Davies, twentieth-century music, opera, and the string quartet, and is the author of the recent Penguin Companion to Classical Music. He is also author of The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraque.

Inhalt

A Debut
Berio
Paths to Montsalvat
Carter
Da lontano
Gubaidulina
A Handful of Pianists
Purcell
Around New York
Tippett
Being in Assisi
Boulez
The Composer's Voice
Mozart 1991
A Decade of Don Giovannis
Henze
Operatic Passions
Vivier
At the Movies
Schoenberg on the Stage
Five British Composers
Lachenmann
Mapping Mtsensk
Stockhausen
Behind the Rusting Curtain
Verdi at the Met
A Quintet of Singers
Schnittke
How It Was, Maybe
Reich
Tracks in Allemonde
Birtwistle
A Departure

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: Alban Berg • Analogy • Bela Bartok • Bernd Alois Zimmermann • Claude Debussy • Claude Vivier • Composition • Criticism • Debussy • Domingo • Don Giovanni • early 21st Century • Elliott Carter • ernst krenek • Frederick Chopin • Fryderyk Chopin • George Frideric Handel • Giuseppe Verdi • Gustav Mahler • Gyorgy Kurtag • Gyorgy Ligeti • Hans Werner Henze • harrison birtwistle • Henry Purcell • Herbert von Karajan • Iannis Xenakis • Igor Stravinsky • John Dowland • Jonathan Miller • Karlheinz Stockhausen • late 20th century • Luciano Berio • Ludwig van Beethoven • Luigi Nono • Maurice Ravel • Mauricio Kagel • Metaphor • moses and aaron • music • musical performance • natural world • nature of opera • Olivier Messiaen • Opera • orchestra of feelings • pavarotti • Pelléas et Mélisande • Pierre Boulez • Schoenberg • Sergei Prokofiev • Sofia Gubaidulina • Steve Reich • Substance of Things Heard • Verdi • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Zoltan Jeney
• ISBN-10: 1-58046-648-6 / 1580466486
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-648-6 / 9781580466486