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Conducting the Brahms symphonies
from Brahms to Boult
%A Dyment, Christopher
%7 First published
%I The Boydell Press
%@ 9781783271009
%K Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 Symphonies
%K Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 Performances
%K Performance practice (Music) History 19th century
%K Conductors (Music) History 19th century
%K Performance practice (Music) History 20th century
%K Conductors (Music) History 20th century
%K Brahms, Johannes
%K Sinfonie
%K Dirigent
%K Interpretation
%K Geschichte
%K Schallaufzeichnung
%K Dirigieren
%D 2016
%X Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 239-244
%X Conclusions. A synopsis with caveats -- Following the trails -- The ultimate message for today and tomorrow, and a warning
%X the composer and his contemporaries. Problems and conundrums -- Brahms conducts his symphonies -- Metronomic and sloppy? Hans Richter in Vienna and London -- The early champions : Levi, Wüllner and Dessoff -- Joseph Joachim : 'Just watch me' -- Hans von Bülow : 'If I'd wanted that, I would have written it in' -- Post-Bülow conductors : encouraging words for juniors -- Brahms's contemporaries on his conducting of the symphonies -- Facing the issues : an assembly of witnesses --
%X lines of authority. Alexander Berrsche : Munich's recording angel (or Beckmesser?) -- Fritz Steinbach : 'all is perfection' -- Felix Mottl : Wagnerian immersion and disastrous Brahms -- Arthur Nikisch : the best of both worlds -- 1859 : a vintage year : Max Fiedler, Karl Muck and a lone American -- Felix Weingartner : 'tradition' or felicitous accident? -- Arturo Toscanini : Brahms from Italy via Munich -- Sir Henry Wood : sometimes successful -- Willem Mengelberg, Oskar Fried and Bruno Walter : tradition-free? -- The Mottl acolytes : Hermann Abendroth and Wilhelm Furtwängler -- Sir Adrian Boult : always 'Steinbach for Brahms' -- Fritz Steinbach's pupils : the Busch brothers and others -- Walter Blume : dedicated to both Steinbach and Fritz Busch -- The critical language : whose 'rubato'? -- Interim conclusions --
%X traditions traced or lost. The chosen recordings : an overview -- Recording details and tabular analyses -- A pure text? -- Repeats -- Some preliminary (and personal) observations -- Symphony no. 1 in C minor op. 68 -- Symphony no. 2 in D major op. 73 -- Symphony no. 3 in F major op. 90 -- Symphony no. 4 in E minor op. 98 --
%C The Boydell Press
%C Woodbridge
%U http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2