A Sound Mind

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How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)

Paul Morley(Autor*in)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Erschienen am 1. Oktober 2020

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Cover
Half-title Page
Dedication Page
By the same author
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
Part One The Question - Into the Unknown
An article written about Harry Styles and Jake Bugg by someone with Anton Webern on his mind
Part Two The Learning - What Brought Me Here
1. A Possible New Me
2. How to be a Mature Student
an article written for the Observer Music Monthly
Part Three The Beginning - To The Planets and Beyond
1. On Being a Funky Youngster
2. A first classical experience read out on Radio 3
Beyond The Planets, because there is more to Holst than Mars
3. Further beyond: A brief history of the 'Classics for Pleasure' label that somehow leads to 'From A for Amazon to Z for Zappa'
4. Where the A is for aware, ardent, absurd, astonishing, analytical, alarming, atonal, apeshit, and the Z is still, but never still, for Zappa
5. Ten 1970s Classics for Pleasure albums that should be released as a budget box set, priced ten times the original price of ten shillings and sixpence, the equivalent now of £5.25
Part Four The Playlist - A Few of My Favourite Things
1. The Age of Storage
2. An introduction by a rock critic to some classical music playlists
3. Eight Steps Beyond
1. Mozart - Masonic Funeral Music in C minor
2. Debussy - Sonata for Cello and Piano
3. Berio - Sequenza V
4. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
5. Webern - Langsamer Satz
6. Earle Brown - Times Five
7. Sofia Gubaidulina - Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
8. John Cage - Organ2/ASLSP
4. Follow-up to the above: two playlists with notes and recommendations, considering the time Ravel and Debussy spent composing more or less at the same time
A Maurice Ravel (born 7 March 1875) playlist
Ravel-gazing: the playlist without Boléro
i. Piano Concerto in G major (1929-31)
ii. Tzigane, Rhapsody for Violin and Piano (1924)
iii. Violin Sonata No. 2 (1923-7)
iv. La valse, a Choreographic Poem for Orchestra (1920)
v. Folk songs, sad songs, beyond songs, sensual allure, the risk-taking of emotional exposure, and a taste for the marvellous
vi. Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet (1905)
vii. 'Oiseaux tristes' (1905)
viii. Schéhérazade, ouverture de féerie (1899)
ix. Sonatine pour piano (1903-5)
x. Menuet antique (1895)
5. Claude and Maurice: together, for ever and never
6. A Debussy dozen with extras
because the ideal French music 'generated emotion without epilepsy'
i. Piano Trio in G major, II. Moderato con allegro (1880), performed by the Arensky Trio/ Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra
I, Andante ma non troppo (1889-90), performed by the Sofia Symphony Orchestra
ii. Rêverie (1890)
iii. String Quartet in G minor (1893), as performed by Quatuor Ébène
iv. Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), performed by Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado/Syrinx for Flute (1913), performed by Vincent Lucas/Rapsodie pour saxophone (1901-11), performed by Nicolas Prost
v. Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), Act I, Scene III: 'In front of the castle', performed by the orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, conducted by Pierre Boulez
vi. Danse sacrée et danse profane, version for harp and strings (1904), performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz, harp soloist Nancy Allen
vii. La cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) (1910), Preludes Book I. No. 10, performed by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, as well as 'The Snow is Dancing' from Children's Corner (1908).
viii. Images pour orchestre, I. Gigues (1909-12), performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
ix. Le Martyre de saint Sébastien (Fragments Symphoniques) (1911), III. La Passion, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux
x. Jeux (1912-13), performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel/La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (1903-5): 2. Jeux de vagues (Play of the Waves), performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
xi. Berceuse héroïque (A Lullaby for a Hero) (1914), piano version performed by Walter Gieseking, orchestral version performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
xii. Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor (1915), performed by Matt Haimovitz/Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp: III. Finale (1915), performed by Ensemble Wien-Berlin/Sonata for Violin and Piano (1916-17)
7. Bonus: 'The Holy Egoism of Genius'/'La Flûte de Pan'/'Metaforce'/'Out of This World (Version 138)' (1999) by Art of Noise from The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Part Five The Writing - Finding the Right Words
1. On Becoming an Insider
2. Crossing over with the classical TV set
3. The art of perseverance
4. The odd ones out on table 29
My top eleven of works commissioned by or dedicated to the RPS would be:
5. The critic as opera diva
6. What plays in Huddersfield plays in Huddersfield
7. The critic as unlikely motivational speaker
8. Above and beyond: the view from Iceland
Part Six 1973, the Year When - A Playlist With Information
The Persistence of Memory
A 1973 playlist with explanations
Part Seven The String Quartet - In Four Parts
1. First movement: sonata form, allegro, in the tonic key
2. Second movement: slow, in the subdominant key
3. Third movement: minuet and trio, in the tonic key
4. Fourth movement: rondo or sonata rondo form, in the tonic key
Part Eight The Obscure - Changing Direction
From the sinking of the titanic as a sustaining avant-garde (classical) masterpiece
Out of, around and under the sinking of the titanic from other directions
Part Nine The Piano - Light and Dark
1. The eighty-eight
2. The pianist
Selected Joanna MacGregor discography: many places to start discovering classical music
3. The organ
4. The invention
Angela Hewitt/ Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 17 and 27 (Hyperion)
5. The preparation
6. With Brian Eno
On talking (1)
On the intensity of ideas
On listening
On destiny
On recording
On being like nothing else
On singing
On talking (2)
On the synthesiser (1)
On the synthesiser (2)
On the naming of things
On hindsight
On reporting in the 1990s that there was too much music being released and he was not going to add to it any more
On the end of an era
Part Ten The Answer - The Place Where the Story Stops
1. I try not to repeat myself
A playlist through which, positively, John Adams flows
2. I ran away and found the future
3. I can't go backwards
The Coda.
A permanent classical music chart in no particular order
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright Page

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