Keyboard Recording, n°273 (mai 2012)

Journal musical

The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre

The Orchestral Revolution explores the altering listening tradition of the eighteenth and early 19th centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the character of tools, compositional practices and reception historical past, this publication describes the beginning of a brand new kind of cognizance to sonority and uncovers the intimate dating among the advance of contemporary musical aesthetics and the emergence of orchestration.

The New York Times Essential Library: Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings

An insightful, provocative collection of the simplest opera performances, selected via the hot York Times's leader classical song critic in a single hundred unique essays

Opera intertwines the drama of the theater with the robust emotionality of track. during this magical and illuminating advisor to the easiest opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the methods tale and song interweave to create the sophisticated yet telling moments that movement us.

Tommasini brings to existence the wealthy historical past of opera functionality and the singers and conductors who, over the last century, have come to possess the song. He chooses masterworks, comparable to Arturo Toscanini's l. a. Boheme, captured for posterity fifty years after he performed the opera's 1896 most suitable for Puccini, and Leontyne Price's Leonora in Il Trovatore, an encapsulation of the suitable Verdi soprano. For aficionados and beginners alike, Tommasini is the best consultant to the passions and playfulness of the opera.

Symbolic Scores: Studies in the Music of the Renaissance (Symbola Et Emblemata Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism)

This monograph on Renaissance tune is dedicated to discussing greater than a hundred and fifty compositions which contain symbolism encouraged via principles and topics inherent within the musical tradition of the time. The creation describes the historic and theoretical premises of using the phrases "allegory", "sign" and "symbol", and is going into the point of quantity symbolism in addition to the goals, limits and ideas of musico-symbolical research.