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Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alfred Brendel on Music written by Alfred Brendel and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating and challenging, 'Alfred Brendel on Music' provides an insight into the exceptional mind of a great pianist.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849549613
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Music, Sense and Nonsense written by Alfred Brendel and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability to bring the clarity and originality of expression that characterised his performances to the printed page. The definitive collection of his award-winning writings and essays, Music, Sense and Nonsense combines all of his work originally published in his two classic books, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out, along with significant new material on a lifetime of recording, performance habits and reflections on life and art. As well as providing stimulating reading, this new edition provides a unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether discussing Bach or Beethoven, Schubert or Schoenberg, Brendel's reflections are illuminating and challenging, a treasure for the specialist and the music lover alike.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571301851
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book A Pianist's A–Z written by Alfred Brendel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic eloquence and vast knowledge, and will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technique, history and repertoire of the piano. Erudite, witty, enlightening and deeply personal, A Pianist's A to Z is the ideal book for all piano lovers, musicians and music aficionados: rarely has the instrument been described in such an entertaining and intelligent fashion.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801440991
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Me of All People written by Alfred Brendel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a series of dialogues with Martin Meyer, Brendel speaks about his life, the development of his career, his music-making, his travels, his poems and essays; about his childhood in Zagreb, adolescence in Graz, and experiences as a young man in Vienna ("I was in Vienna, but I was never a 'genuine' Viennese"); about literature, painting, architecture, and kitsch.".
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : New York : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374216511
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Music Sounded Out written by Alfred Brendel and published by New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the creative process in classical music, examining such composers as Mozart, Busoni, Beethoven, and Liszt
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571353738
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Lady from Arezzo written by Alfred Brendel and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? What is she looking at? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? The mannequin now graces a room in the attic of Brendel's house in Hampstead. Her features convey great artistic seriousness in combination with absurd comedy: the epitome of his own musical and literary preferences. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book One Finger Too Many written by Alfred Brendel and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deceptively slight volume is proof that not only good but excellent things often come in small packages. A master of the piano, Alfred Brendel here turns in a deft performance as poet, building fantastic little "word machines" of extraordinary tensile strength. We are drawn immediately into a fun-house world of suspicious but wondrous goings-on: The supernumerary index finger of the pianist in the title poem, we're told, sometimes pointed out "an obstinate cougher in the hall/or emerged from beneath his tailcoat/beckoning a lady in the third row." Elsewhere, Beethoven, disguised as Salieri, poisons a sleeping Mozart and skulks away clutching, forever, Mozart's greatest possession--the key of C minor. And the conceptual artist Christo wraps the Three Tenors on the balcony of La Scala. These constantly surprising poems enchant even as they sting, revealing the light (and dark) side of Alfred Brendel, one of the world's greatest musicians. His followers will have to have this book, but so will anyone who enjoys readable poetry touched by a divine madness.
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231073196
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Musical Elaborations written by Edward W. Said and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of "melody, solitude, and affirmation" in it.
Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307701425
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of the Piano written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
Author : Ian Bostridge
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961648
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Schubert's Winter Journey written by Ian Bostridge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic—these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour—it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions—loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope—until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world’s greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert’s wanderer our mirror.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780860511878
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts written by Alfred Brendel and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373495
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Musicophilia written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force? Music has no concepts, it lacks images; it has no power of representation, it has no relation to the world. And yet it is evident in all of us–we tap our feet, we keep time, hum, sing, conduct music, mirror the melodic contours and feelings of what we hear in our movements and expressions. In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t. He explores, in his inimitable fashion, how it can provide access to otherwise unreachable emotional states, how it can revivify neurological avenues that have been frozen, evoke memories of earlier, lost events or states or bring those with neurological disorders back to a time when the world was much richer. This is a book that explores, like no other, the myriad dimensions of our experience of and with music.
Author : Alfred Brendel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571220700
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Cursing Bagels written by Alfred Brendel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Brendel is universally acknowledged as one of the world's leading pianists. He is also the author of several books, including Alfred Brendel on Music, The Veil of Order and One Finger Too Many. Cursing Bagels is his second collection of poetry, and is by turns witty, plaintive, dadaist and grounded. With these English versions translated by the author with Richard Stokes, Brendel affirms his position as one of the most curious and playful minds in the business. 'Alfred Brendel's poems are a delight. His voice is wonderfully eccentric, droll, sly, mischievous - the same brilliant fingers making a new sound.' Harold Pinter 'Brendel has produced a collection of texts that will join the select ranks of genuinely comic literature.' Hans Zender, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'I have hugely enjoyed Alfred Brendel's unexpected One Finger Too Many. Brendel's poems are trapdoors into his dream-life, witty, Dadaesque and subversive - especially of his own grandeur as a musician.' A. Alvarez, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Achilleas Zographos
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1941270735
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Music and Chess written by Achilleas Zographos and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Most Fascinating Journey! It has long been recognized that there are only three major areas of human endeavor which produce prodigies: music, chess and mathematics. This does not occur by happenstance. There are links on many levels. Now, for the first time, Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa examines the yet unexplored relation of chess to music. Mathematics is a main common denominator, a fact that is highlighted accordingly. The thesis of this extraordinarily researched book is that chess is art in itself. It can create art and is strongly related to mathematics and music. As becomes clear, this relationship has already been introduced by some legendary players such as Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Kramnik . Great artists such as John Cage, Marcel Duchamp and Arnold Schönberg, to name but a few, have also been fascinated by the very same idea. Surprisingly, this has not been explored in detail so far – only some sporadic articles exist, by authors specializing in either music or chess. There are chapters that address issues which are specialized in chess and music, while others cover related issues of general, social and artistic nature. Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa can be appreciated by readers who have a good, general, though non-specific background, in both fields. That is, no technical knowledge of music is required, with the only prerequisite to fully appreciate the text being the understanding of standard chess rules. The text could be equally enlightening to students of music or mathematics, as an added intellectual insight into these two disciplines. The text is supplemented by many chess diagrams, charts, and over 50 full-color images. So, turn on the music, set up chessboard, get out the calculator and let the author take you on a most fascinating journey that is Music and Chess – Apollo Meets Caissa.
Author : Konrad Wolff
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393009293
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music written by Konrad Wolff and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a testimonial to Konrad Wolff, Schnabel himself expressed his admiration for the author and this book: “Konrad Wolff . . . is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theorist, a learned historian, an outstanding teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer. . . . [His book] is a comprehensive elucidation of a complex and subtle problem.
Author : Franz Schubert
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457476594
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Sonatas, Volume I written by Franz Schubert and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged sonatas for piano (1-6).
Author : Carolyn Sloan
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761176470
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Welcome to the Symphony written by Carolyn Sloan and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using one of the most famous works in classical music—Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—here is the perfect way to introduce a young child to the world of classical music. This charming and interactive picture book with its panel of 19 sound buttons is like a ticket to a concert hall, taking readers on a journey from the exciting first moment when the musicians begin tuning up to the end of the first movement (attention newcomers: don’t clap yet!). At each step of the way, readers learn the basics of classical music and the orchestra: What is a conductor? What is a symphony? Who was Beethoven? The different aspects of music: melody, harmony, tempo, theme. And the families of instruments—strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. But the best part is that every critical idea is illustrated in gorgeous sound. The sound panel allows readers to hear the different parts of the symphony and voices of the music—the famous beginning of the Fifth, what a clarinet sounds like, the difference between a violin and a viola, what a melody is, and what harmony is. Kids will want to match their voices to the A note that tunes the orchestra, dance to the rhythmic passages—and, of course, sing along to da-da-da-daah!
