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Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music
2009, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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0747598746 9780747598749
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Music at the limits: three decades of essays and articles on music
2008, Bloomsbury
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Music at the Limits (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art)
October 19, 2007, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents
The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision
Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art
Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals)
On Richard Strauss
Die Walküre, Aida, X
Music and feminism
Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini)
Middle age and performers
The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos
The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni
Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum
Giulio Cesare
Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung
Extreme occasions (on Celibidache)
Peter Sellars's Mozart
András Schiff at Carnegie Hall
Richard Strauss
Wagner and the Met's Ring
Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust)
Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova)
Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts)
Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer
Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten)
Musical retrospection
The bard festival
The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner
Music as gesture (on Solti)
Les troyens
Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life)
32 short films about Glenn Gould
Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation)
Why listen to Boulez?
Hindemith and Mozart
Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner
In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius)
On Fidelio
Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress)
Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy: an autobiography
Bach for the masses
Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries)
Glenn Gould, the virtuoso as intellectual
Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician)
Barenboim and the Wagner taboo
Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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