Song on Record: Volume 1, Lieder

A history of the Lied and its interpretation, with a guide to available recordings.

Alan Blyth (Edited by)

9780521268448, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 October 1986

364 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.67 kg

'… the chapters contain a tremendous wealth of material …' The Schubertian

This first volume of Song on Record, devoted to Lieder, provides a critical guide to performance on record from the early days of the gramophone to the present day. Alan Blyth, with a team of distinguished writers and critics, has covered comprehensively the main strands of each composer's output in the field, from Haydn and Mozart to Schoenberg and Berg, together with illuminating and entertaining discussion of the differing interpretations found on the selected recordings. The book is thus as much a history of the Lied and its interpretation as a guide to available recordings and will be of interest to musicologists and performers as well as to music lovers and record collectors.

Introduction
1. Haydn and Mozart Peter Branscombe
2. Beethoven David Hamilton
3. Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin Alan Blyth
4. Schubert: Winterreise Hilary Finch
5. Schubert: Schwanengesang Robin Holloway
6. Schubert: Ten songs John Steane
7. Loewe Will Crutchfield
8. Mendelssohn Will Crutchfield
9. Schumann: Liederkreis Graham Johnson
10. Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben Jeremy Sams
11. Schumann: Dichterliebe Alan Blyth
12. Schumann: Ten songs Alan Blyth
13. Liszt Will Crutchfield
14. Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge Alan Blyth
15. Brahms: Ten songs John Steane
16. Wagner: Wesendonck lieder John Steane
17. Wolf: Mörike songbook Robin Holloway
18. Mörike: Goethe songs Hilary Finch
19. Mörike: Spanish and Italian songbooks Alan Blyth
20. Mahler: Song-cycles Michael Kennedy
21. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Andrew Clements
22. Strauss: Ten songs Alan Blyth
23. Strauss: Four last songs Michael Kennedy
24. Schoenberg and Berg David Murray
Index of singers' names.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]