Previous edition: Chicago : A Cappella Books, 2001. Principally reviewed versions of essays previously published in the collections "Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts" and "Music Sounded Out." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
On Schnabel and interpretation (with Konrad Wolff). Minor Mozart: in defense of his solo works -- Notes on a complete recording of Beethoven's piano works -- Werktreue, an afterthought -- Form and psychology in Beethoven's first sonatas -- The process of foreshortening in the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 -- Musical character(s) in Beethoven's piano sonatas -- Beethoven's new style -- Must classical music be entirely serious? The sublime in reverse ; Beethoven's Diabelli Variations -- Three interviews. notes on Beethoven's piano concertos -- Schubert's piano sonatas 1822-1828 -- Schubert's last sonatas -- A footnote on the playing of Schubert's four-hand works -- Testing the grown-up player: Schumann's Kinderszenen -- Theme and variations. Schumann and Beethoven ; From Mozart to Brahms -- Liszt misunderstood -- Liszt and the piano circus: an afterthought -- The noble Liszt -- Liszt's Annees de Pelerinage I and II -- Liszt's b minor sonata -- Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies -- Liszt's bitterness of heart -- Liszt's piano playing -- Turning the piano into an orchestra: Liszt's transcriptions and paraphrases -- Fidelity to Liszt's letter? -- A peculiar serenity: on the thirtieth anniversary of Busoni's death, 1954 -- Arlecchino and Doktor Faust: on the centenary of Busoni's birth, 1966 -- Afterthoughts on Busoni -- Superhuman frailty: on Busoni's Doktor Faust -- On playing Schoenberg's piano concerto -- Wilhelm Furtwangler -- Edwin Fischer: remembering my teacher -- Afterthoughts on Edwin Fischer -- Coping with pianos -- A case for live recordings -- On recitals and programmes -- From 'Analysis' to 'Zubiaurre': a review of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians -- Three interviews. Talking to Brendel (with Jeremy Siepmann) ; Bach and the piano (with Terry Snow) ; On Schnabel and interpretation (with Konrad Wolff).
Summary:
New edition of pianist Alfred Brendel's definitive collection of his award-winning writings on music. Combines revised versions of his two books, "Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts" and "Music Sounded Out," and includes a number of new essays--some of them never before published in English--discussing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Schoenberg, or other pianists.
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