Music, Sense and Nonsense · Collected Essays and Lectures by Brendel, Alfred -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page CONTENTS PREFACE 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? Must Classical Music Be Entirely Serious? The Text and Its Guardians:

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 Fidelity to Liszt’s Letter?

BUSONI

A Peculiar Serenity Arlecchino and Doktor Faust Afterthoughts on Busoni Superhuman Frailty On Playing Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto

PERFORMANCES, PROGRAMMES, RECORDING

Wilhelm Furtwängler Edwin Fischer 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 Audacious Chamber Music II Children’s Orchestra Farewell to the Concert Stage From ‘Analysis’ to ‘Zubiaurre’

CONVERSATIONS

Talking to Brendel Bach and the Piano On Schnabel and Interpretation Afterthoughts on Life and Art Me, Myself and I Thanking the Critics On Humour, Sense and Nonsense

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