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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      27 November 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511611636
      9780521441094
      9780521446600
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611636
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.308kg, 152 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.19kg, 152 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
      Series:
      Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Book description

    Chopin's E minor and F minor Piano Concertos played a vital role in his career as a composer-pianist. Praised for their originality and genius when he performed them, the concertos later attracted censure for ostensible weaknesses in form, development and orchestration. They also suffered at the hands of editors and performers, all the while remaining enormously popular. This handbook re-evaluates the concertos against the traditions that shaped them so that their many outstanding qualities can be fully appreciated. It describes their genesis, Chopin's own performances and his use of them as a teacher. A survey of their critical, editorial and performance histories follows, in preparation for an analytical 're-enactment' of the music - that is, a narrative account of the concertos as embodied in sound, rather than in the score. The final chapter investigates Chopin's enigmatic 'third concerto', the Allegro de concert.Chopin: The Piano Concertos has won the Wilk Book Prize for Research in Polish Music.

    Awards

    Chopin: The Piano Concertos has won the Wilk Book Prize for Research in Polish Music

    Reviews

    ‘John Rink maintains the high standards of previous handbooks in the series. The book is extremely informative and well documented, and Rink’s concise prose is nicely varied in tone, whether historical, analytical, or as in some places, highly personal in interpretation. Directed at a wide audience of performers, academics and general readers, Rink’s perceptive musical insights carry the authority of both scholar and skilled performer.’

    Source: National Early Music Association

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