Title: Choral masterworks from Bach to Britten : reflections of a conductor /
Authors: Summer, Robert J., 1941-
Publisher: Scarecrow Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Choral music.
Contents: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 -- George Frideric Handel: Messiah -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339 -- Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation -- Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123 -- Franz Schubert: Mass in G major, D. 167 -- Felix Mendelssohn: Suggestions for abridged versions of Elijah -- Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 -- Giuseppe Verdi: Manzoni Requiem -- Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8 ("Symphony of a thousand") -- Recording the Mahler Eighth with Robert Shaw -- Thank you note from Robert Shaw -- Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, op. 48 -- Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9 -- Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms -- Benjamin Britten: relationships of the Latin Requiem mass to Wilfred Owen's poetry in the Britten War Requiem -- Appendix A: Text organizational chart for Handel's Messiah -- Appendix B: Text organizational chart for Mendelssohn's Elijah -- Appendix C: The textual organization of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Passion according to St. Matthew -- Appendix D: Translation of the text of the Ordinary of the Mass -- Appendix E: Translation of the text of the Requiem Mass -- Selected discography of CD recordings -- Selected bibliography -- Index of names -- About the author.