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Inside Early Music - Conversations with Performers (Paperback, Revised)
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Inside Early Music - Conversations with Performers (Paperback, Revised)
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The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its
era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become
immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top
Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing
medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995
was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner,
who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the
movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling
records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about
the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate
long-lost performing styles? How important are historical period
instruments for the performance of a piece? Why should musicians
bother with historical information? Are they sacrificing art to
scholarship?
Now, in Inside Early Music, Bernard D. Sherman has invited many of
the leading practitioners to speak out about their passion for
early music--why they are attracted to this movement and how it
shapes their work. Readers listen in on conversations with
conductors Gardiner, William Christie, and Roger Norrington, Peter
Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, vocalists Susan Hellauer of
Anonymous 4, forte pianist Robert Levin, cellist Anner Bylsma, and
many other leading artists. The book is divided into musical
eras--Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic and
Romantic--with each interview focusing on particular composers or
styles, touching on heated topics such as the debate over what is
"authentic," the value of playing on period instruments, and how to
interpret the composer's intentions. Whether debating how to
perform Monteverdi'smadrigals or comparing Andrew Lawrence-King's
Renaissance harp playing to jazz, the performers convey not only a
devotion to the spirit of period performance, but the joy of
discovery as they struggle to bring the music most truthfully to
life. Spurred on by Sherman's probing questions and immense
knowledge of the subject, these conversations movingly document the
aspirations, growing pains, and emerging maturity of the most
exciting movement in contemporary classical performance, allowing
each artist's personality and love for his or her craft to shine
through.
From medieval plainchant to Brahms' orchestral works, Inside Early
Music takes readers-whether enthusiasts or detractors-behind the
scenes to provide a masterful portrait of early music's
controversies, challenges, and rewards.
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