The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner write by Michael Tanner. This book was released on 2010-05-06. The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and discussion, Wagner has had an influence on many fields outside music. In this lively pocket guide, Michael Tanner gives concise accounts of all his operas - the likes of Parsifal, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde - showing how important it is to grasp the dramatic situations at every point, and indicating some of the key musical features. He also provides an outline of Wagner's astonishing life, and shows that he has often been unfairly criticised and made a scapegoat, especially for political events which took place long after his death. Key features include: - Wagner: his life year by year - Wagner: his music work by work - Things people said about Wagner - Essential Wagner: ten great moments - Wagner on CD and DVD - Wagner bibliography This indispensable Faber Pocket Guide provides a wealth of insights into Wagner and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in both and the man and his music. '[P]robably the best introduction ever written to this most complex of composers.' Simon Heffer, Telegraph
The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach
The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach write by Sir Nicholas Kenyon. This book was released on 2011-03-17. The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries. This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life. Among the features of this easy-to-use book: The Bach Top Ten Bach: The music work by work Performing Bach today Bach: The life year by year What people said about Bach Accessible and easy to use, Nicholas Kenyon provides for the first time an up-to-date survey of all Bach's major works in the light of the latest research, from Masses to Cantatas, Concertos to Suites, and recommends the best CDs and further reading.
The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten
The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten write by John Bridcut. This book was released on 2010-11-04. The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', will include significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's music. An outline of planned chapters: - The Top Ten Britten pieces - Critics' First Impressions - Britten's Life - Britten and Pears - The things they said - The Music (stage works, choral works, songs, chamber music, orchestral works) - The Interpreters of Britten's work - Britten as Performer - The Impresario (English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival) - Britten's Homes - Trivial Pursuits
The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera write by Rupert Christiansen. This book was released on 2014-04-29. The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin. Whether you are a first-timer at La Boheme or a seasoned Wagnerian, every opera-goer can benefit from a little background information, and this book aims to provide just that. Accessible and easy-to-use, it contains entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.
Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg write by Christopher Kimbell. This book was released on 2024-07-02. Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera. The work’s significance as a touchstone of national culture survived even such troubling episodes as its public endorsement in 1933 as ‘the most German of all German operas’ by Joseph Goebbels or the rendition in previous years by audiences at Bayreuth of both national and Nazi-party anthems at the work’s culmination. This chequered reception history and apparent propensity for reinterpretation or reclamation has long fuelled debates over the socio-political meanings of Wagner’s musical narrative. On the question of Beckmesser, for instance, heated arguments have surrounded the existence of antisemitic stereotypes in the work as well as their possible indication of a racial-political dimension to Sachs’s restoration of Nuremberg society. Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger’s narrative. In four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, the book traces a critical potential within the opera’s construction of provincial and national identities and problematizes existing discourse around its depiction of race and gender.
