What We Really Do


Newly published

WHAT WE REALLY DO
The Tallis Scholars
second edition

by Peter Phillips






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From the Spring 2013 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Arnold Whittall: ‘Lohengrin and the constraints of romantic opera’
David Cormack: ‘Wagner curiosities in the Bergen Public Library’
Leo Black: ‘Recalled to life: mature reflections on Schubert’s Lazarus
Judith Chernaik: ‘Mendelssohn reconsidered’
Markus Rathey: ‘Between Heine, Werner and Bach: two quotations in Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony op.107’
Donald Burrows: ‘Reconstructing Handel’s performances of L’Allegro
Olive Barlow & Thelma Wilson: ‘Handel, Eccles and the birthday celebrations for Queen Anne in 1711’
Olga Baird: ‘Early settings of the Ode to joy: Schiller–Beethoven–Tepper’

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson
, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1924–1933: prodigal son
Friedemann Sallis, Robin Elliott & Kenneth DeLong, edd.: Centre and periphery, roots and exile: interpreting the music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress
AM Garnham: Hans Keller and internment: the development of an émigré musician 1938–48
Hans Keller & Milein Cosman: Stravinsky the music-maker: writings, prints and drawings
Richard Cohn: Audacious euphony: chromaticism and the triad’s second nature
Philip Olleson, ed.: The journals and letters of Susan Burney
Giorgio Sanguinetti: The art of partimento: history, theory and practice
Nicholas Baragwanath: The Italian traditions & Puccini: compositional theory and practice in nineteenth-century opera
Peter Dickinson, ed.: Lennox Berkeley and friends: writings, letters and interviews

From the Winter 2012 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Sabra Statham: ‘ “Back to Baltimore”: George Antheil’s symphonic excursion from European modernism to American postmodernism’
Barry Cooper & Erica Buurman: ‘The influence of Wolfgang Ebner’s Ferdinand Variations on Bach, Beethoven and others’
Olive Barlow & Thelma Wilson: ‘The Subscription Musick of 1703–04’
Beverly Jerold: ‘The varied reprise in 18th-century instrumental music’
Simon Fleming: ‘John Garth and his music: an important provincial composer from 18th-century Britain’

Book reviews

by Leo Black, Patricia Howard, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Susan Wollenberg: Schubert’s fingerprints: studies in the instrumental works
Kristina Muxfeldt: Vanishing sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann 
Rob Haskins: John Cage
Jeremy GrimshawDraw a straight line and follow it: the music and mysticism of La Monte Young
Andrew Shenton, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Arvo Pärt
Matthew Dirst: Engaging Bach: the keyboard legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn
Martin Harlow, ed.: Mozart’s chamber music with keyboard
Susan McClary: Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music
Hugh Macdonald: Music in 1853: the biography of a year
Ryan Minor: Choral fantasies: music, festivity, and nationhood in nineteenth-century Germany

From the Autumn 2012 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Arnold Whittall: ‘Distressed surfaces: Morgan Hayes and 21st-century expressionism’
Sylvia Bowden: ‘ “Mademoiselle Maxemiliana Brentano” and the English edition of Beethoven’s op.106’
Stephen Husarik: ‘Musical direction and the wedge in Beethoven’s high comedy, Grosse Fuge op.133’
Judith Chernaik: ‘Schumann’s Papillons op.2: a case study’
Jeroen Tempelman: ‘Eduard Strauss in America, 1890’

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson and Peter Williams of

Andrew H. Weaver: Sacred music as public image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III
Bettina Varwig: Histories of Heinrich Schütz
Ian Woodfield: Performing operas for Mozart
Stephen Rumph: Mozart and Enlightenment semiotics
RJ Stove: César Franck: his life and times

From the Summer 2012 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Patricia Howard: ‘The castrato composes: Guadagni’s setting of “Pensa a serbarmi, o cara” ’
Leo Black: ‘Late thoughts from Schubert: the 1828 replacement Benedictus for the C major Mass’
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘Popolaresco, peasants and primitivism’
Eric Saylor: ‘Valedictory Variazioni: form and function in the first movement of Vaughan Williams’s Symphony no.8’
David Howard: ‘The way forward: building on Dean Hussey’s vision’
Benjamin Dwyer: ‘ “Within it lie ancient melodies”: Dowland’s musical rhetoric and Britten’s Songs from the Chinese

Book reviews

by Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Tomi Mäkelä: Jean Sibelius
Philip Ross Bullock, ed.: The correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch 1906–1939
Daniel M. Grimley, ed.: Jean Sibelius and his world
Lewis Foreman, ed.: The John Ireland companion
Stephen Downes: Hans Werner Henze: Tristan (1973)
Louise Duchesneau & Wolfgang Marx, edd.: György Ligeti: of foreign lands and strange sounds
Amy Bauer: Ligeti’s laments: nostalgia, exoticism, and the absolute
Richard Steinitz: Explosions in November: the first 33 years of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Mattias Lundberg: Tonus peregrinus: the history of a psalm-tone and its use in polyphonic music)

From the Spring 2012 Musical Times, available now


Articles

Michael Graubart: ‘Beethoven’s Ninth: where does integration happen?’
Chris Walton: ‘Upstairs, downstairs: acoustics and tempi in Wagner’s “Träume” and Siegfried idyll
Arnold Whittall: ‘Reforging The ring: origins and new beginnings’
Maria Euchner: ‘The ring’s Rhinemaidens: singing seductresses or women of wisdom?’
Kerry McCarthy & John Harley: ‘More books from the library of William Byrd’
Alan Howard: ‘The sources of John Blow’s Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell (1696)’
Ian Bartlett: ‘Was Boyce a Mason?’
Simon Fleming: ‘Charles Avison jnr and his book of organ voluntaries'

Book reviews

by Peter Phiilips, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Kenneth Birkin: Hans von Bülow: a life for music
Holly Watkins: Metaphors of depth in German musical thought from E.T.A. Hoffman to Arnold Schoenberg
John Harley: The world of William Byrd: musicians, merchants and magnates
Michael Musgrave: The life of Schumann
Gordon DW Curtis: A provincial organ builder in Victorian England: William Sweetland of Bath

From the Winter 2011 Musical Times, available now


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Raymond Holden: ‘The iconic symphony: performing Beethoven’s Ninth Wagner’s way’
Erica Buurman: ‘New evidence in an old argument: Beethoven’s metronome mark for the Trio of the Ninth Symphony’
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: ‘The deictic in “diese Töne”: thoughts on the finale’s proem in the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven’
Judith Chernaik: ‘Schumann’s Doppelgängers: Florestan and Eusebius revisited’
Leo Black: ‘ “Eine ganz eigne Stimmung”: Schumann’s late piano music, and a new symposium
Stephanus Muller: ‘Miniature blueprints, spider stratagems: a Michael Blake retrospective at 60'

Book reviews

by Patricia Howard, Andrew Thomson, Arnold Whittall and Peter Williams of

Dmitri Tymoczko: A geometry of music: harmony and counterpoint in the extended common practice
Steven Rings: Tonality and transformation
Charles Youmans, ed.: The Cambridge companion to Richard Strauss
Raymond Holden: Richard Strauss: a musical life
Ian Bartlett with Robert J. Bruce: William Boyce: a tercentenary sourcebook
Helen Berry: The castrato and his wife
Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul & Janice B. Stockigt, edd: Music at German courts, 1715-1760: changing artistic priorities
Stephen Rose: The musician in literature in the age of Bach
Patricia Hall: Berg’s Wozzeck