Not only does this new edition of the Capriccios and Exercises for the Violoncello, Op. 15, by Robert Lindley fill an important gap in our knowledge of the history of cello playing, but it also will be of great use to teachers and students of the instrument.
Move over, Mozart Effect, and make way for the Beethoven Syndrome. Thus the dramatically titled new book by Mark Evan Bonds, an absorbing exploration of yet another way Beethoven matters to modernity.
‘Lord Have Mercy Upon Us: Songs and Hymns in Time of Plague’ offers the reader/performer a grisly banquet to entertain us in our self-isolation.
As one reads the volume’s 350 pages, it becomes clear that the manuscript is stubborn and unyielding in disclosing its many secrets.
Peter Holman uses a variety of sources, inclusive of first-hand performance descriptions, iconography, and score analysis, taking aim at certain contemporary assumptions about 17th-, 18th-, and early 19th-century performance practice.
The harpsichordist and musicologist Jane Clark, Swansea University professor emeritus Derek Connon, and Keyword Press have published a third, revised edition of The Mirror of Human Life. They have improved what was already a very good thing.
This book provides new insights into how benefit performances “for musicians, composers and singers became an integral part of the commercial music business during the eighteenth century.” Little has changed in the music world since that time.
As the only English-language resource of its kind, Steve Zohn’s excellent book should be considered a long overdue and much welcomed addition for libraries and anyone with an interest in 18th-century music.
Mark Kroll’s commentary airs issues of interest to anyone playing not just Hummel but also the keyboard music of Schubert to the very early Romantics.
David J. Smith’s ‘Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music before c.1630’ contains 11 studies ranging widely in structure and focus, reflecting their diverse origins as papers first delivered at various conferences between 2004 and 2008.