Song on Record: Volume 1, Lieder

Cambridge University Press, 10/23/1986
EAN 9780521268448, ISBN10: 0521268443

Hardcover, 364 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This first volume of Song on Record, devoted to Lieder, provides a critical guide to performance on record from the early days of the gramophone to the present day. Alan Blyth, with a team of distinguished writers and critics, has covered comprehensively the main strands of each composer's output in the field, from Haydn and Mozart to Schoenberg and Berg, together with illuminating and entertaining discussion of the differing interpretations found on the selected recordings. The book is thus as much a history of the Lied and its interpretation as a guide to available recordings and will be of interest to musicologists and performers as well as to music lovers and record collectors.

Introduction
1. Haydn and Mozart Peter Branscombe
2. Beethoven David Hamilton
3. Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin Alan Blyth
4. Schubert
Winterreise Hilary Finch
5. Schubert
Schwanengesang Robin Holloway
6. Schubert
Ten songs John Steane
7. Loewe Will Crutchfield
8. Mendelssohn Will Crutchfield
9. Schumann
Liederkreis Graham Johnson
10. Schumann
Frauenliebe und -leben Jeremy Sams
11. Schumann
Dichterliebe Alan Blyth
12. Schumann
Ten songs Alan Blyth
13. Liszt Will Crutchfield
14. Brahms
Vier ernste Gesänge Alan Blyth
15. Brahms
Ten songs John Steane
16. Wagner
Wesendonck lieder John Steane
17. Wolf
Mörike songbook Robin Holloway
18. Mörike
Goethe songs Hilary Finch
19. Mörike
Spanish and Italian songbooks Alan Blyth
20. Mahler
Song-cycles Michael Kennedy
21. Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde Andrew Clements
22. Strauss
Ten songs Alan Blyth
23. Strauss
Four last songs Michael Kennedy
24. Schoenberg and Berg David Murray
Index of singers' names.