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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Mahler’s Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler’s grandiose piece of philosophical programme …
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
This guide to Schubert’s much-loved song cycle explores both the music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes biography and cultural history, literary …
Dowland: Lachrimae (1604)
Dowland’s Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook, the first detailed …
Tippett: A Child of our Time
Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. It has become one of his most …
Janácek: Glagolitic Mass
The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janácek’s most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this …
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
After the death of Mahler in 1911 the great Austro-German symphonic line was carried on mainly in England, America, Scandinavia and Russia. The Fifth Symphony of Carl Nielsen, …
Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17
Schumann’s Fantasie, Op. 17 is one of the finest examples of Romantic piano music. In a rounded picture of this major keyboard work, Nicholas Marston first traces the fascinating …
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original music-theatre works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide is the first …
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius’s Fifth is one of the great late-Romantic symphonies. In this searching account, based on a wealth of new information, James Hepokoski takes a fresh look at the work and …
Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony
This guide to Mozart’s last and most celebrated symphony explores the historical background and aesthetic context of the work as well as the music itself. The early chapters …
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto was the only significant work of this genre to appear between Mozart’s five concertos of 1775 and Mendelssohn’s E minor Concerto of 1844. This handbook …
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)
Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers, amateur and specialist alike, since its first performance just over a century ago. Timothy L. Jackson …