Music at the limits / by Said, Edward W.

Table of Contents: “…Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) ; Music (on Richard Strauss) ; Die Walkure, Aida, X ; Music (music and feminism) ; Middle age and performers ; Music (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 and Erwartung ; Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) ; Peter Sellars's Mozart ; Andras 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) ; Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer ; Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) ; Musical retrospection ; The bard festival ; Music as gesture (on Solti) ; Les troyens ; Why listen to Boulez? …”

Music at the limits / by Said, Edward W.

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 -- pt. …”
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