Performing Brahms : early evidence of performance style / edited by Michael Musgrave and Bernard D. Sherman.

Contributor Musgrave, Michael, 1942-

Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Descriptionxx, 391 p., 10 p. of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Note:How different was Brahms's playing style from our own? / Bernard D. Sherman -- Performing Brahms's music : clues from his letters / Styra Avins -- Joachim's violin playing and the performance of Brahms's string music / Clive Brown -- Metronome marks, timings, and other period evidence regarding tempo in Brahms / Bernard D. Sherman -- Performance issues in A German Requiem / Michael Musgrave -- A German Requiem to words of Holy Scripture for soloists, choir and orchestra (organ ad libitum), from Der deutsche Gesangverein / Siegfried Ochs ; introduced and translated by Michael Musgrave -- Fanny Davies and Brahms's late chamber music / George S. Bozarth -- Flexible tempo and nuancing in orchestral music : understanding Brahms's view of interpretation in his Second Piano Concerto and Fourth Symphony / Robert Pascall and Philip Weller -- Brahms in the Meiningen tradition : his symphonies and Haydn Variations in the markings by Fritz Steinbach / edited by Walter Blume. Excerpt : the First Symphony / introduced and translated by Walter Frisch -- In search of Brahms's First Symphony : Steinbach, the Meiningen tradition and the recordings of Hermann Abendroth / Walter Frisch -- Early trends in the performance of Brahms's piano music / Michael Musgrave -- Performing Brahms in the style hongrois / Jonathan Bellman -- Brahms's musical world : balancing the evidence / Robert Philip.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.

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