Alpensinfonie

Author: Richard Strauss
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486277259
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Two symphonic masterworks that employ vast orchestras offer a powerful portrayal of a day in the mountains and an intimate reflection of the composer's day-to-day life at home with his wife. Features lay-flat sewn binding.

The piano concerti in full score

Author: Franz Liszt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486252216
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Authoritative Breitkopf & Hartel editions of Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major and Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major. Unabridged. "

Symphony no. 5

Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486278751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Dramatic work conveys message of the Reformation in symphonic terms, capturing the implicit joy and suffering, building to a powerful finale of variations on Luther's "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott."

Symphony no. 5 in B-flat major

Author: Anton Bruckner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486416917
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Featuring strikingly original harmonies and an extended structure and tonal range, this staple of the orchestral repertoire is a landmark of the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition. Authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

Poem of Ecstasy and, Prometheus: Poem of Fire

Author: Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486284611
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Scriabin's last two orchestral works were the products of a virtual delirium of composing. Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: Poem of Fire demonstrate his original musical spirit and dazzling gifts as an orchestration, employing immense orchestral forces.

Poet and peasant and other great overtures

Author: Franz von Suppé
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486413977
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This compilation features five works by a prolific 19th-century composer of theatrical music whose oeuvre ranged from incidental music to full operas. Reproduced from authoritative sources, the contents include Light Cavalry, Noon and Night in Vienna, Beautiful Galatea, Vienna Jubilee Overture, and the title piece.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Other Works for Orchestra

Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486408590
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Inexpensive compilation includes great title piece ? one of the most frequently performed and recorded works in the modern orchestral repertoire ? along with "Norfolk" Rhapsody No. 1, Overture to "The Wasps," and the Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Reproduced from authoritative early editions.

Strauss

Author: Laurenz Lütteken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190605715
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music. Some consider him a composer of the late romantic period, while others declare him a traitor of modernity for his role in National Socialism. Despite the controversy surrounding him, Strauss's works--even beyond his most well-known operas Elektra and Rosenkavalier--are present in the repertories of concert halls worldwide and continue to enjoy large audiences. The details of the composer's life, however, remain shrouded in mystery and gossip. Laurenz Lütteken's Strauss presents a fresh approach to understanding this elusive composer's life and works. Dispensing with stereotypes and sensationalism, it reveals Strauss to be a sensitive intellectual and representative of modernity, with all light and shade of the turn of the twentieth century.

Lives of the Great Composers 3e

Author: Harold C Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393038576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
Schonberg brings the reader closer to an identification with the composers he discusses and thus closer to an understanding of their music. The book consequently places more emphasis on biographical details and less upon technical analysis of the music.

The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection

Author: Ted Libbey
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761104872
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
An update and revised guide by the host of National Public Radio's Performance Today recommends the best recordings of the three hundred most important classical works, and provides background information on each composer. Original.