Talking of music
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Music
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: Conductors and conducting. Arturo Toscanini ; Sir Thomas Beecham at seventy-five ; Sir Malcolm ; Furtwängler ; The Hallé Orchestra ; The orchestral conductor ; More about the conductor; title: Composers. Approaching Mahler ; Mahler's Ninth symphony ; Igor Stravinsky ; Sibelius at ninety ; Mozart the unparalleled ; Schönberg and Berg ; Anton Bruckner ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; Of Richard Strauss ; A note on Berlioz ; A connoisseur symphony ; The genius of Liszt ; Chopin and pianists ; Brahms and the piano ; The songs of Hugo Wolf; title: About opera. The tragic sense in Carmen ; Verdi's masterpiece ; Return to Vienna ; Words and music in opera ; Of British opera ; Let's make an opera; title: Tradition and experiment. "Contemporary" music ; Revolt and tradition ; The pioneer's dusty way ; Relative values ; Music and literature ; Music and "meaning" ; Music and nature ; What is a banal tune? ; Composer and public ; Content and technique ; Fabricated music; title: English music. What do the English people really sing to-day? ; Period music ; The English and music ; Contemporary English ; Words and music; title: Criticising the critics. Criticism with humour ; The objective ear ; Criticising the critics ; Shaw as a music critic ; The critic and Beethoven ; Arthur Johnstone ; Erich Hartleibig; title: Tailpiece. A rare memory of Gigli (1935)