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A Song in Our Hearts with Natasha Loges
As Valentine's Day is almost upon us, could there be a more apt topic than the art of Romantic Song? For this week's show we welcome Natasha Loges, Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Reader in Musicology at the Royal College of Music, London, and author of several books on Brahms, including Brahms and His Poets - A Handbook, and editor of German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. We focus on the art of Lieder as it moved from Vienna to Leipzig in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Covering Brahms's thirty-two song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book provides a wealth of information on the poets whose words he set. A substantial introduction, exploring the multiple meanings that song-poetry held for Brahms, is followed by essays on the forty-six poets whose verses he set. Each summarises the settings, Brahms's links to the poet, interconnections between the poets, and offers further context situating the poet within a wider literary, cultural and political landscape.
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German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Natasha Loges & Laura Tunbridge (editors); Indiana University Press; Paperback
For much of the nineteenth century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home and salon as well as on the concert platform. The historical case studies presented in this new paperback edition are set alongside reflections from a selection of today's leading musicians, offering insights on current Lied practices.
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