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  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2007
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  • ISBN-10: 0826497284
  • ISBN-13: 9780826497284
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 630 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2007
  • Kirjastus: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • ISBN-10: 0826497284
  • ISBN-13: 9780826497284
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Containing studies on Wagner, Strauss and Britten, this Holloway's collection of writings includes a piece on Edward Elgar. Shorter pieces cover individual composers and particular works as well as individuals and issues in musical life, as Holloway considers the Twentieth Century as a contradictory yet unified whole.


Following the success of On Music; Essays and Diversions Vol I Robin Holloway's collection of writings covers a wealth of new ground. Containing substantial studies on Wagner, Strauss and Britten, the collection includes a fascinating piece on Edward Elgar which will be of great interest in the 150th anniversary of his birth. Shorter pieces cover individual composers and particular works as well as individuals and issues in musical life, as Holloway considers the Twentieth Century as a contradictory yet unified whole.


Gathered from a wealth of published and unpublished work, including the popular Spectator columns, Robin Holloway brings together some of his highly entertaining accounts of travelling around the world with his music; of travel in America and Europe, a kaleidescope of festivals and of life as Professor of Music at Cambridge University.
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"As ever, Holloway's prose is rich, dense and stylistically idiosyncratic."   Reviewed by Roger Nichols, BBC Music Magazine, 2008 "[ S]timulation, amusement and enlightenment for anyone who cares about how music is made, heard and understood."   Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in Gramophone, 2008 "endlessly diverting and superbly readable. .. rare to find such combination of exuberance, clarity, erudition and humour. Holloway is incapable of writing a dull sentence... This volume is a model of lively, informed writing on all aspects of music, leaving most other practitioners' well and truly in the shade" - Classical Music Reissue of previous review, Classical Music. 20 December 2008. Author article in The Guardian.

Preface xi
Part I Places
1 Americas
3
i N.Y.C.
3
ii San Francisco — highlights and no lights
5
iii Charleston and Gershwin
7
iv Graceland — pelvic tingles
9
v New Orleans
10
vi In the steps of the Master
12
vii St Louis
14
viii 'From the New World'
16
2 The Continent
19
i Zurich — safe haven for genius
19
ii On the waterfront — Stresa
20
iii Madrid
22
iv Holland — pain and glory with Wagner
24
v Antwerp I
26
vi Antwerp II
28
3 Home
30
i Greater glory — St Paul's
30
ii Ely — beware the hissing serpent
31
iii Unlikely situations
33
iv Spirit of England
35
v Composers' Houses
36
vi Pleasures of Presteigne
38
vii Manchester at sixty
40
viii Vale of Glamorgan
42
4 Aldeburgh cameos
44
i Festival for all the senses (1990)
44
ii Genius loci (1997)
45
iii Oh to be in Aldeburgh (1998)
47
iv Aldeburgh delights (1999)
48
v Aldeburgh pickings (2000)
50
vi Tingles of enjoyment (2001)
52
vii Festival spirit (2002)
54
5 Cambridge cameos
57
i Brahms arid the sardines
57
ii Conduct becoming – exams and alumni
58
iii Cambridge talent
60
iv Kettle's Yard
62
v Nine lessons and a Carol
64
vi Levity and levitation
66
vii Wild flows the Don
68
Part II Composers in Brief
i J.S. Bach – heaven and earth
73
ii Master of all he surveys – Young Mozart
75
iii Schubert – keeping the faith
77
iv Weber's Euryanthe
79
v Two on Schumann
a) A dubious book
83
b) Doubtful symphonies
84
vi Tribute to Glinka
85
vii Berlioz – on-the-edge genius
87
viii The delights of Bizet
89
ix Chausson's Le roi Arthus
91
x Mood swings – Hugo Wolf
93
xi Max Reger – black treacle and golden syrup
95
Intermezzo: Entartete Musik
1 Korngold and Krenek
101
2 Schulhoff and Schreker
105
3 Von Schillings, Schoeck, Goldschmidt
113
4 Der ferne Kiang
119
5 Rozsa and Korngold (again)
120
Part II Composers in Brief (continued)
xii Weinberger's Schvanda
125
xiii Gerhard's Duenna
126
xiv Puzzled by Prkfv
128
xv Grainger
130
xvi Birtwistle's Panic
131
xvii Berio
134
xviii Punk transformed
137
Mein Herz brennt
xix Music of felicity
138
Julian Anderson
138
Part III Composers at Length
1 Gerontius-bound: Elgar's choral works up to 1900
143
2 A question of Kitsch: Strauss and Lehar
167
3 An introduction to Debussy's etudes
176
4 Messiaen
192
5 Ligeti's half-century
201
6 Alexander Goehr
i) Sandy at seventy
212
ii) Sing, Ariel
217
7 David Del Tredici before Alice
220
Part IV Charting the Twentieth Century
1 Thumbnail sketches
229
i The first 50 years
229
ii The 1930's
231
iii The 1950's
233
iv The 1960's
235
v The overlong 20th century
236
2 An overview: twentieth-century (lite) blues
239
Part V Odds 'n' Sods
i 'The twenty best'
257
ii Monotony: blushing bores
261
iii Intimation of mortality
262
iv Finishing touches
264
v Whose work is it anyway?
266
vi The business of growing up
268
vii Gems of compression
270
viii Box of delights
272
ix Painful listening
274
x 'Dream again'
276
Index 278
Robin Holloway is well-known as a versatile and lyrical composer, who has written many chamber, orchestral and vocal works. A critic and teacher, his ground-breaking study of Debussy and Wagner has been praised for its insights into Debussy's harmonic language