Performing Brahms
Subtitle: early evidence of performance style
By: edited by Michael Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman.
Contributors: Musgrave, Michael, 1942-; Sherman, Bernard D.
Series: Musical performance and reception
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 -- Critique et interprétation; Performance practice (Music) -- 19th century; Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) -- 19e siècle
Description: Although the music of Brahms is central to the lives of classical performers and listeners, few know how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. This study brings most of the available evidence into a single volume, along with commentary by leading Brahms experts. Most importantly, the book contains an unique CD of historic recordings--including an actual performance by Brahms--which provides tangible insight and a greater appreciation of the composer [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.
Table of contents: title: How different was Brahms's playing style from our own? / Bernard D. Sherman; title: Performing Brahms's music : clues from his letters / Styra Avins; title: Joachim's violin playing and the performance of Brahms's string music / Clive Brown; title: Metronome marks, timings, and other period evidence regarding tempo in Brahms / Bernard D. Sherman; title: Performance issues in A German Requiem / Michael Musgrave; title: A German Requiem to words of Holy Scripture for soloists, choir and orchestra (organ ad libitum), from Der deutsche Gesangverein / Siegfried Ochs ; introduced and translated by Michael Musgrave; title: Fanny Davies and Brahms's late chamber music / George S. Bozarth; title: Flexible tempo and nuancing in orchestral music : understanding Brahms's view of interpretation in his Second Piano Concerto and Fourth Symphony / Robert Pascall and Philip Weller; title: Brahms in the Meiningen tradition : his symphonies and Haydn Variations in the markings by Fritz Steinbach / edited by Walter Blume.  Excerpt : the First Symphony / introduced and translated by Walter Frisch; title: In search of Brahms's First Symphony : Steinbach, the Meiningen tradition and the recordings of Hermann Abendroth / Walter Frisch; title: Early trends in the performance of Brahms's piano music / Michael Musgrave; title: Performing Brahms in the style hongrois / Jonathan Bellman; title: Brahms's musical world : balancing the evidence / Robert Philip.