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Book Reviews
Constantin Floros. Johannes Brahms: ‘Free But Alone’: A Life for a Poetic Music, trans. Ernest Bernhard Kabisch (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 2010). x+291 pp. £ 37.00.
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 341-346
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Roe-Min Kok and Laura Tunbridge, eds, Rethinking Schumann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). xv+471pp. £30.00.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 110-114
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Charles Youmans, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). xxxvi+368 pp. £18.99.
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 346-350
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Jonathan Kregor, Liszt as Transcriber (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2010). xiii + 299 pp. £55.00.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 115-118
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Wm. A. Little, Mendelssohn and the Organ (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). xvi+504 pp. $65.00.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 118-122
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Ryan McClelland, Brahms and the Scherzo: Studies in Musical Narrative (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010). xvi + 320pp. £58.50.
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CD Reviews
From the Shores of a Distant Homeland: Russian Song Recorded - Russian Songs: Mussorgsky, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, BorodinMikhail Svetlov bass. Pavlina Dokovska pf Naxos 8.572218 (1 CD: DDD: 56 minutes). Notes included. - Mikhail Kuzmin: Alexandrian Songs, Sacred Verses. Mila Shkirtil. mezzo-soprano. Yuri Serov pf. Northern Flowers NFPMA 9993 (1 CD: 60 minutes) Notes and translations included. - Sonetti Romani: Viacheslav Ivanov in music of Myaskovsky, Lourié, Shebalin, GretchaninovMila Shkirtil mezzo-soprano. Yuri Serov pf Northern Flowers NFPMA 99103 (1 CD: 54 minutes) Notes and translations included.
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 353-361
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 363-364
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Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Hilary Poriss, eds., Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). xviii+283 pp. £55.00.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 127-131
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Ian Taylor, Music in London and the Myth of Decline: From Haydn to the Philharmonic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). xiv+208 pp. £55.00. - Colin Timothy Eatock, Mendelssohn and Victorian England (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009). xi+189 pp. £49.50. - Charles Edward McGuire. Music and Victorian Philanthropy: The Tonic Sol-fa Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). xxiii+240 pp. £53.00.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 131-135
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DVD Reviews
Night of the seven stars? Productions of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots on DVD - Die Hugenotten (Deutsche Oper production released on DVD in 2001) Stage director: John Dew Set and costume designer: Gottfried Pilz Performing edition: John Dew German translation: Ignatz Franz Castelli (1837) Cast: Angela Denning (Margarethe von Valois), Lucy Peacock (Valentine), Richard Leech (Raoul von Nangis), Hartmut Welker (Graf von Saint-Bris), Camille Capasso (Urban), Martin Blasius (Marcel), Lenus Carlson (Graf von Nevers) Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Conductor: Stefan Soltesz Chorus master: Georg Metz Director for television: Brian Large ArtHaus DVD 100156 PAL/100157 NTSC: arthaus-musik.com £24.99 from www.amazon.co.uk - Les Huguenots (Opera Australia production released on DVD in 2002) Stage director: Lotfi Mansouri Set designer: John Stoddart Costume designer: Michael Stennett Lighting designer: Derek Coutts Choreographer: Lois Strike Cast: Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Anson Austin (Raoul de Nangis), Amanda Thane (Valentine), Clifford Grant (Marcel), Suzanne Johnston (Urbain), John Pringle (Comte de Nevers), John Wegner (Comte de Saint Bris) Conductor: Richard Bonynge Director for television: Virginia Lumsden Kultur DVD D0029: www.kultur.com £19.99 from www.amazon.co.uk
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 365-373
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Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Live-Mitschnitt aus dem Bayreuther Festspielhaus 2008. Inszenierung: Katharina Wagner Musikalische Leitung: Sebastian Weigle Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele (Berlin: United Motion, 2008) - Richard Wagner für Kinder: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Live-Mitschnit von der Probebühne IV der Bayreuther Festspiele 2011; Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankurt (Oder), Inszenierung: Maximilian von Mayenburg Musikalische Leitung: Hartmut Keil (Bayreuth: BF Medien, 2011)
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 373-378
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Recording Reviews
Franz Liszt, 200 Years - Complete Piano Music Vol. 33: Wagner & Weber Transcriptions Steven Mayer, pf Naxos 8.570562 (68 minutes: DDD) - The Sound of Weimar, Volume 1: Dante-Symphony, Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine Martin Haselböck, cond. Orchester Wiener Akademie, Chorus sine nomine NCA CD 60234 (59 minutes: DDD) - Liszt, His Life and Music by Malcolm Hayes Naxos Educational 2 CD Set with bonus material 8.558214-15 (154 minutes: DDD) - Sonata in B minor, Fantasy and Fugue on the choral ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ (trans Ferruccio Busoni) Garrick Ohlsson, pf Bridge CD 9337 (61 minutes: DDD) - Rare Piano Works (Réminiscences des Puritains, Phantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, Variationen über das Thema Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, Berceuse, Litanei) Gregorio Nardi, pf Dynamic CD DM 8017 (68 minutes: DDD) - Piano Sonata, Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, Venezia e Napoli, Marc-André Hamelin, pf, Hyperion CDA 67760 (79 minutes: DDD) - Funeral Odes (Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust, Trois odes funèbres) Ilan Volkov, cond BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Hyperion CDA 67586 (79 minutes: DDD) - The Liszt Project (La lugubre gondola S.200, Nuages gris, Unstern!, Piano Sonata in B minor, Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este I – Thrénodie, Saint Francois d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux, Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, Vallée d'Obermann+works by Wagner, Berg, Scriabin, Ravel, Bartók, Messiaen, Stroppa) Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pf Deutsche Grammophon 4779439 (2 CDs, 166 minutes: DDD) - Piano Works (‘Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata’, Lacrymosa [after Mozart's Requiem], Ballade No. 2, Liebeslied [after Schumann], Mazeppa, Nuages gris, Ständchen [after Schubert], Funérailles, Isoldes Liebestod [after Wagner]) Lise de la Salle, pf NAÏVE V 5267 (77 minutes: DDD)
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 137-149
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Louis Spohr, Der Alchemyst - Bernd Weikl, Moran Abouloff, Susanne Pütters, Jörg Dürmüller, Jan Zinkler, Mike Garling. Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatstheater Braunschweig. Conductor: Christian Fröhlich. Oehms Classics OC 923 (3 CD) - Engelbert Humperdinck, Königskinder Klaus-Florian Vogt, Juliane Banse, Christian Gerhaher, Gabriele Schnaut et al. Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Rundfunkchor Berlin. Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher. Chrystall Classics N 67 044 (3 CD): Engelbert Humperdinck, Koenigskinder
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Score Reviews
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto in E major, piano reduction and parts, edited by Michael Kube (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2009), viii+68pp. - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E major (Partitur Nr. 15119), and Version in E flat Major (Partitur 15118), edited by Michael Kube (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2010), iv+48pp.
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 379-387
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Recording Reviews
Once again in rehearsal - ‘Celibidache Rehearses Bruckner's Ninth’ Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre Arthaus Musik DVD 101 555; 2011, 58 min.
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 153-156
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Selected Songs of the Munich School 1870–1920: Lieder for Soprano Voice and Piano, edited by Robert W. Wason, Valerie Errante, Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, volume 54. (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2010), preface plus 208 pages.
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Johannes Brahms, Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77, edited by Clive Brown, Bärenreiter-Verlag Urtext (Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH und Co. KG, 2012), xlvi+101 pp., Study score, TP 949 € 12,50. - Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, edited by Ernst Herttrich, Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext (Munich and Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel and G. Henle Verlag, 2011), Full Score, PB 15115 € 54,00.
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- 08 January 2013, pp. 390-394
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How to listen and watch Die Walküre without Politics? - Richard Wagner: Die Walküre Production: Tankred Dorst Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, cond. Christian Thielemann Siegmund – Johan Botha Wotan – Albert Dohmen Sieglinde – Edith Haller Brünnhilde – Linda Watson - Opus Arte DVD (OABD7081D) (Recorded live from the Bayreuth Festival, 2010)
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- 24 May 2012, pp. 156-160
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