By Michael Steinberg
ISBN-10: 0195126440
ISBN-13: 9780195126440
ISBN-10: 0195340663
ISBN-13: 9780195340662
Here are greater than fifty illuminating essays at the vintage choral masterworks, starting from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, to works by means of Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and so on. Steinberg spans the full heritage of classical song, from such giants of the Romantic period as Verdi and Berlioz, to prime glossy composers equivalent to Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, to modern masters resembling John Adams and Charles Wuorinen. for every piece, Steinberg encompasses a attention-grabbing biographical account of the work's genesis, usually spiced with tremendous asides. the writer contains an astute musical research of every piece, one who informal song fanatics can simply have fun with and that extra severe enthusiasts will locate worthwhile. The e-book additionally offers uncomplicated info equivalent to a few of the pursuits of the paintings, the association of the refrain and orchestra, and short ancient notes on early performances.
More than twenty million american citizens practice frequently in choirs or choruses. Choral Masterworks will attraction not just to live performance goers and CD creditors, but additionally to this immense multitude of choral performers, an extremely engaged and energetic community.
"What units Steinberg's writing aside is its attractive mix of impregnable authority (he understands this tune) and merely own asides (by the top of the booklet, we all know this man). Choral Masterworks may be learn through anyone, from a qualified musician to any younger listener newly braced through the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem.'" --Washington publish booklet World
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