基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. A guide to more than 50 of the choral classics.
Full Description
Michael Steinberg follows his warmly received listener's guides on the symphony and the concerto with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, a book of descriptive-analytical essays on the great masterpieces in the supremely inspiring repertoire for chorus and orchestra. This collection includes illuminating commentary on such works as Handel's Messiah, Bach's Passion settings and B-minor Mass, the Mozart Requiem, and the great choral works of Haydn and Beethoven. Steinberg also discusses the monuments of the Romantic era such as the stupendous Requiem settings of Berlioz and Verdi as well as the supremely tender one by Fauré. Venturing into the twentieth century and the dawning of the twenty-first, he provides insights into the great achievements of Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, and, nearer our own time, such masters as John Adams. Steinberg's writes without jargon, in language that grabs the technically untrained music-lover, but which is still of riveting interest to conductors, singers, and others who make music their life. His guidebook brings impeccable scholarship, insight into the spiritual content of the works, a deep love of music, and surprising corners of humor and whimsy.
Contents
Introduction
A Word to Nonbelievers--and Believers
Adams: Harmonium
Bach Introduction
Bach: The Passions
Bach: Saint John Passion
Bach: Saint Matthew Passion
Bach: Magnificat
Bach: Mass in B minor
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Berlioz: Requiem
Brahms Introduction
Brahms: A German Requiem
Brahms: The Shorter Choral Works
Brahms: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates)
Brahms: N:anie (Threnody)
Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Britten: War Requiem
Cherubini: Requiem in C minor
Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia (Songs of Imprisonment)
Dvorák: Stabat mater
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Fauré: Requiem
Handel: Messiah
Handel-Mozart: Messiah
Haydn: Introduction
Haydn: The Oratorios
Haydn: The Creation
Haydn: The Seasons
Haydn: Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass)
Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
Janácek: Glagolilic Mass
Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus
Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah)
Mozart Introduction
Mozart: Mass in C minor
Mozart: Requiem
Orff: Carmina burana
Rachmaninoff: The Bells
Schmidt: Das Buch mit dieben Siegelm (The Book With Seven Seals)
Sessions: When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd
Stravinsky Introduction
Stravinsky: Canticum acrum
Stravinsky: Persephone
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky: The Wedding
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Vaughan Williams Introduction
Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Verdi: Requiem
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
