Music, sense and nonsense : collected essays and lectures / Alfred Brendel.
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London :
The Robson Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Updated edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Mozart. A Mozart player gives himself advice ; Minor Mozart : in defence of his solo works
- Beethoven. Notes on a complete recording of Beethoven's piano works ; Werktreue : an afterthought ; Form and psychology in Beethoven's piano sonatas ; The process of foreshortening in the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 2, no. 1 ; Musical character(s) in Beethoven's piano sonatas ; Beethoven's new style ; Must Classical music be entirely serious? : The sublime in reverse ; Must Classical music be entirely serious? : Beethoven's Diabelli variations ; The text and its guardians : notes on Beethoven's piano concertos
- Schubert. Schubert's piano sonatas, 1822-28 ; Schubert's last sonatas ;A footnote on the playing of Schubert's four-hand works
- Testing the grown-up player : Schumann's Kinderszenen
- Theme and variations. Schumann and Beethoven ; From Mozart to Brahms
- Liszt. Liszt misunderstood ; Liszt and the piano circus : an afterthought ;The noble Liszt ; Liszt's Années de pèlerinage I and II ; Liszt's B minor sonata ; Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies ; Liszt's bitterness of heart ; Liszt's piano playing ; Turning the piano into an orchestra : Liszt's transcriptions and paraphrases ; Fidelity to Liszt's letter?
- Busoni.A peculiar serenity : On the thirtieth anniversary of Busoni's death, 1954 ; Arlecchino and Doktor Faust : On the centenary of Busoni's birth, 1966 ; Afterthoughts on Busoni ; Superfuman frailty : On Busoni's Doktor Faust
- On playing Schoenberg's Piano concerto
- Performance, programmes, recording. Wilhelm Furtwängler ; Edwin Fischer : remembering my teacher ; Afterthoughts on Edwin Fischer ; Remembering Katja Andy ; Coping with pianos ;A lifetime of recording ;A case for live recordings ; On recitals and programmes ; Hearing ; On some performance habits ; Music life in flux ; Audacious chamber music I : Schubert's String quartet in G major ; Audacious chamber music II : Beethoven's Grosse Fuge and the Quartet, op. 130 ; Children's orchestra ; Farewell to the concert stage ; From "analysis" to "Zubiaurre" : a review of the New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1981
- Conversations. Talking to Brendel (with Jeremy Siepmann) ; Bach and the piano (with Terry Snow) ; On Schnabel and interpretation (with Konrad Wolff) ; Afterthoughts on life and art (with Martin Meyer) ; Me, myself and I
- Thanking the critics
- On humour, sense and nonsense.