Music at the limits / Edward W. Said.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Said, Edward W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical criticism.

Opera--Reviews.

Opera.

Operas--Performances--20th century.

Operas.

Concerts--Reviews.

Concerts.

Music--Book reviews.

Music.

Operas--Performances.

Genre:

Book reviews.

Reviews.

Physical Description:

xiii, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Contents:

The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision

Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art

Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals)

On Richard Strauss

Die Walküre, Aida, X

Music and feminism

Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini)

Middle age and performers

The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos

The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni

Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum

Giulio Cesare

Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung

Extreme occasions (on Celibidache)

Peter Sellars's Mozart

András Schiff at Carnegie Hall

Richard Strauss

Wagner and the Met's Ring

Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust)

Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova)

Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts)

Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer

Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten)

Musical retrospection

The bard festival

The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner

Music as gesture (on Solti)

Les troyens

Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life)

32 short films about Glenn Gould

Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation)

Why listen to Boulez?

Hindemith and Mozart

Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner

In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius)

On Fidelio

Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress)

Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy: an autobiography

Bach for the masses

Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries)

Glenn Gould, the virtuoso as intellectual

Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician)

Barenboim and the Wagner taboo

Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven).

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780231139366

0231139365

9780231511551

0231511558

OCLC:

80020003