© Columbia University Press
Music at the Limits
Paper, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13937-3
$22.50
November, 2007
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13936-6
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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Eighties
1. The Music Itself: Glenn Gould?s Contrapuntal Vision
2. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art
3. Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals)
4. On Richard Strauss
5. Die Walkre, Aida, X
6. Music and Feminism
7. Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini)
8. Middle Age and Performers
9. The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos
10. The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni
11. Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum
12. Giulio Cesare
13. Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung
14. Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache)
15. Peter Sellars's Mozart
16. Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall
Part II: The Nineties
17. Richard Strauss
18. Wagner and the Met?s Ring
19. Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust)
20. Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova)
21. Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts)
22. Die Tote Stadt, Fidelio, The Death of Klinghoffer
23. Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten)
24. Musical Retrospection
25. The Bard Festival
26. The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner
27. Music as Gesture (on Solti)
28. Les Troyens
29.Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
30. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
31. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation)
32. Why Listen to Boulez?
33. Hindemith and Mozart
34. Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner
35. In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius)
36. On Fidelio
37. Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress)
38. Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy—An Autobiography
39. Bach for the Masses
Part III: 2000 and Beyond
40. Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries)
41. Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual
42. Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician)
43. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo
44. Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven)
Appendix: Bach/Beethoven
Index