Songs on record
Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1986. Hardcover. 364 pp. first volume of Song on Record, devoted to Lieder, provides a critical guide to performance on record from the early days of the gramophone to the mid-1980s.. Alan Blyth, with a team of writers and critics, cover comprehensively the main strands of each composer's output in the field, from Haydn and Mozart to Schoenberg and Berg, together with discussion of the differing interpretations found on the selected recordings. The book is thus as much a history of the Lied and its interpretation as a guide to available recordings and will be of interest to musicologists and performers as well as to music lovers and record collectors. An timeless and outstanding reference resource. Very Good, a bit shaken and with age-toned pages and in. a Very Good lightly worn dust jacket. Item #2232825
Price: $55.00