Bach performance practice, 1945-1975
Subtitle: a comprehensive review of sound recordings and literature
By: Dorottya Fabian.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation; Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Analysing over 100 recordings from 1945-1975, this book examines twentieth-century baroque performance practice as evinced in all the commercially available recordings of J.S. Bach's Passions, Brandenburg Concertos and Goldberg Variations. Dorottya Fabian presents a qualitative, style-orientated history of the early music movement in its formative years through a comparison of the performance style heard in these recordings with the scholarly literature on Bach performance practice. Issues explored in the book include the availability resources, balance, tempo, dynamics, ornamentation, rhythm and articulation."--Jacket.
Notes: Accompanying compact disc contains excerpts from the Goldberg variations, Brandenburg concertos, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-274) and discography (p. 275-298) and index.

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