Performing BeethovenRobin Stowell The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an historically appropriate manner, to elucidate the interpretation of Beethoven's music by conductors and performers, to clarify transcriptions by editors or to reconstruct the experience of the listener in various different periods. Four contributions focus on the piano music while another group concentrates on Beethoven's music for strings. These chapters are complemented by an examination of Beethoven's exploitation of the developing wind choir, an evaluation of early twentieth-century recordings as pointers to early nineteenth-century performance practice and an historical survey of rescorings in Beethoven's symphonies. |
Contents
Barry Cooper University of Manchester | 23 |
David Rowland Christs College Cambridge | 49 |
Colin Lawson University of Sheffield | 70 |
David Watkin London | 89 |
Clive Brown University College Bretton Hall University of Leeds | 117 |
Robin Stowell University of Wales College of Cardiff | 150 |
Robert Philip The Open University | 195 |
David Pickett Indiana University | 205 |
Martin Hughes Berlin | 228 |
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Adagio all'ottava Allegro annotations Auer Bachmann Baillot bars Bass in Beethoven's bassoon Beethoven Beethoven's music Berlin Bernhard Romberg Bülow Carl Czerny cellist changes chords clarinet Clive Brown composer composer's conductor continuo corda cresc Czerny David Dessauer Dont's Dotzauer Duport dynamic edition effect Essai example figured bass fingering Flesch fortepiano hand harmonic Haydn horn Hubay ibid indications instruments interpretation Joachim keyboard left-hand legato London Ludwig van Beethoven Mahler melody Mengelberg Missa solemnis modern Mozart's nineteenth century Ninth Symphony notation notes oboe octave orchestra original passages pedal markings performance practice phrase pianists Piano Concerto players portamento quavers realisation recordings Romberg Rostal rubato Scherzo score second movement semiquavers slow movement slurs solo soloist Spohr staccato string bass String Quartet style suggests Szász Szigeti tempo tempo rubato third movement tonal tone trans trills Trio vibrato Vienna Viennese Violin Concerto Violin Playing Violin Sonata violinists Violoncell Schule Wagner Weingartner Wilhelmj wind woodwind