Kirjahaku

Renowned today as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. Yet he held important conducting posts in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna and influenced generations of younger conductors. This important book is the first to consider Strauss's career as a conductor and place it in relation to his life as a composer. With unique access to extensive materials in the Strauss family's private archives, Raymond Holden corrects misconceptions about Strauss and discusses the musician's understanding of composing and conducting as intertwined processes. Holden throws new light on Strauss's relationships, on his disputed role during the Third Reich, and particularly on his performance practices and principles.

In conversation with Professor Raymond Holden of the Royal Academy of Music, Sir Mark talks about some of the major issues facing music, musicians and audiences today. From his first musical experiences as a boy treble in Canterbury Cathedral to his current roles, he discusses the music that has marked his distinguished career. Whether you’re interested in the performance, social and economic histories of music over the last 50 years, or simply fascinated by the life and times of Sir Mark Elder, this book is essential reading.

The Royal Academy of Music has been training and inspiring successive generations of music makers and leaders from all over the world for 200 years. This volume brings together forty interviews with eminent international musical figures conducted between 2009 and 2018, serving as a valuable collection of exceptional life stories.

Only recently has it become obvious that conductors' annotated scores and marked orchestral parts are of great cultural, historical and musical importance. In the not-so-distant past, these artefacts had something of an uncertain status with many either languishing unopened in libraries and family archives or simply being dispersed or discarded. With the help of institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music, Harvard University and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra this has begun to change with their extensive collections of these materials now being made available to scholars and musicians. This element examines the emergence of these artefacts as didactic and interpretative tools and explores the ways in which the performance styles of ten iconic conductors active in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries are reflected in their annotated scores and marked orchestral parts of Mozart's Symphony No. 41, K. 551 ('Jupiter').