Name: The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music von Robert Philip
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The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music Zusammenfassung

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music Robert Philip

An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader.

Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composers intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music Bewertungen

Other guides to the orchestral repertoire offer neat thumbnail sketches, but Philip delves deeper as he surveys the history and analysis of 400 concert works from Corelli to Shostakovich.Richard Fairman, The Financial Times (Books of the Year 2018)

If readers want to understand or expand their knowledge of orchestral music, this is the book most needed. This is the one to buy. Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective

This is a book the musically curious will want to keep handy to dip into for sheer enjoyment, or to seek an informed opinion before listening to a live or recorded performance. Susan Nickalls, Classical Music Magazine

In this new book, which has been painstakingly prepared over a number of years, Philip turns his attention to more than 300 orchestral works dating from late 17th century Corelli and Vivaldi to 20th century Britten and Tippett. The scale is breathtaking, the choice both comprehensive and representative, but most importantly the scholarship is profound, perceptive and concise, with a directness of language that completely avoids pomposity. Ken Walton, The Scotsman

Readers will be enticed to listen to familiar compositions with new ears Keith Bruce, The Herald

A collection of authoritatively written programme essays on some400 works by 68 composers from Bach to WebernRichard Osborne, Oldie

An ambitious project and elegantly published Gavin Plumley, Gramophone

What I like best about the book: that Philip is unafraid of voicing his opinions, and that the opinions are so often convincing Stephen Brown, Times Literary Supplement

"The Classical Music Lovers Companion to Orchestral Music is a real treasure...Philip has the rare ability to write about music in a highly accessible, casual style, free from overly technical language, while nevertheless offering much that even experts will value."David D. Corey,Law & Liberty

Robert Philip's book is an astonishing achievement: a crisp, compendious and penetrating account of virtually every well-known piece of orchestral music the listener could hope to hear. Full of insight and illuminating description, it's an encouragement to listen, and an encouragement to explore. Dip in, and immerse yourself in some of the greatest music ever writtenwith a truly knowledgeable guide for company.Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre

Robert Philip achieves the almost impossible with his erudite, accessible and hugely informed commentary, covering a wide range of works, often calling on significant composer correspondence and charting the course of each piece with a tillers hand. When he writes about music you know and love, you suddenly realise why you love it so much. A masterly exegesis beautifully written.Rob Cowan

In a class of its own for scope, detail and depth of insight. Philips sheer knowledge is staggering. Its hard to think of any other British musicologist who could have produced such a magnum opus and written with equal illumination across 250 years of repertoire.Richard Wigmore

Robert Philips new book, covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers, is an engaging companion that offers intriguing details about each piece for all music lovers in an accessible, non-technical manner.Marin Alsop

Über Robert Philip

Robert Philip was a senior lecturer in music at the Open University, and is a well-known presenter on BBC Radio. He is the award-winning author of Performing Music in the Age of Recording.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR010820064

ISBN 13

9780300254822

ISBN 10

0300254822

Titel

The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music Robert Philip

Autor

Robert Philip

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Yale University Press

Datum

2020-09-08

Anzahl der Seiten

968

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N/A

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