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Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait

Introducere de Nicholas Kenyon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2008
"Too frequently a multi-author work on a composer obscures rather than illuminates its subject.  This volume casts a genuinely prismatic light upon it."
R.J. Stove, The New Criterion
 
"An Anniversary Portrait succeeds in offering a sufficient yet panoramic view of Elgar's life and music. The impressive list of authors and concise nature of their contributions make this book an easily digestible and enjoyable read."
Muso  
Edward Elgar was a man of many contradictions. He was born an outsider, into a family of lower-middle class, Catholic, origins.  Yet his fame, and ability to write music that struck a chord in the national consciousness, led him to adopt a sycophantic attitude towards the Royal Family and high society, even though he always felt ill at ease with them.  Elgar was a depressive with a problematic marriage, who craved recognition, but in many ways he regretted the piece of music which made him famous. 'Pomp and Circumstance' made him the leading English composer of his age, but also contributed to the jingoism which he so disliked during the First World War.
 
Yet, unquestionably, he was the greatest musical genius that England had produced in centuries.  This Portrait, by some of the scholars and musicians that understand him best, offers new light on a wide range of aspects of Edward Elgar's life and work. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847065339
ISBN-10: 1847065333
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Elgar is still celebrated as one of Britainâ?Ts best composers, as illustrated by the anniversary celebrations at the last Proms.

Cuprins

Introduction by Nicholas Kenyon
 
Part 1: Elgar the Man
Orchestrating his own life: Sir Edward Elgar as a historical personality - David Cannadine, Institute of Historical Research
Elgar's biography, Elgar's repute: themes and variations - Julian Rushton - Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds
A View from 1955 - Diana McVeagh
Elgar the Catholic - Stephen Hough
 
Part 2: Elgar the Composer
Elgar in Manuscript - Robert Anderson
Elgar the Composer - Christopher Kent, University of Reading
Elgar the Progressive - Hans Keller
Elgar's Church Music - Adrian Partington
A Sixth pomp and Circumstance March - Anthony Payne
 
Part 3: Performing Elgar
Conducting Elgar - Mark Elder in conversation with Richard Morrison
The Role of the Angel in the Dream of Gerontius - Janet Baker
Sir Edward Elgar: My Musical Grandfather - Yehudi Menhuin
The Violin Concerto - Tasmin Little
The  Cello Concerto: Jacqueline du Pré's Recordings - Andrew Keener
 
Part 4: The Legacy
An Honoured Trust: The Elgar Foundation and the Birthplace Museum - Michael Messenger
 
Index

Recenzii

Mention in The Bookseller
"McVeagh first chronicled Elgar's career in 1955, so has a lifetime of knowledge."
Title Mention in the International Record Review, October 2007
"The great strength of the book lies in its Elgarian blending of views by musicologists and historians as well as performing musicians...this pleasant and interesting book is an enjoyable read and will make you listen to the work once again."   Reviewed by Robert Giddings, Tribune, 2008
"A friendly and familiar portrait of the composer for the general reader... in addition to affectionate tributes, several of the essays tucked inside take less well-trodden paths through Elgar's life and his music, notably Adrian Partington's fine chapter on 'Elgar's Church Music which gives the reader a vivid sense of the 'variety, colour and intelligence' of what John Butt has described in another recent collection of essays on Elgar as a 'small but striking oeuvre2. Affectionate yet critical, personal yet informative" The Elgar Society Journal, July 2008
"One of the most enjoyable aspects of Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait is its eclectic compilation of perspectives on Elgar, a composer whose complexity grows with each successive publication... the interaction of histories, musicologists, biographers, and artists ensures that the book will be greatly appreciated by Elgarians, and different constituencies of readers will undoubtedly find much of value in different essays. The personal essays and reminiscences-while delightful and engaging-are limited as a scholarly resource; however, several of the contributions will appeal to Elgar scholars. The relative brevity of most of the essays marks them as suggestive inducements to further inquiry, but ultimately Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait successfully meets the goals implied by its title." - Dan Kline, Victorian Studies, Summer 2008
Title mentioned in The Lady
"an intimate tribute to Edward Elgar and his music by some of those most affected by his legacy."   "An Anniversary Portrait succeeds in offering a sufficient yet panoramic view of Elgar's life and music. The impressive list of authors and concise nature of their contributions make this book an easily digestible and enjoyable read."   Muso, 01/08/07
"thoughtful take on Elgar's dual nature."   "a welcome handful of insights."   David Nice, BBC Music Magazine, 01/08/07
"With a starry line-up of contributors and an introduction by outgoing Proms director Nicholas Kenyon, Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait touches accessibly on similar themes." David Gutman, BBC Proms magazine, Prom 31, 5 August 2007
"It is a good, warts-and-all study of one of our greatest composers"
"Too frequently a multi-author work on a composer obscures rather than illuminates its subject.  This volume casts a genuinely prismatic light upon it." R.J. Stove, The New Criterion
Edited extract from book, May 2007