Hannah French

Sir Henry Wood: Champion of J.S. Bach (eBook, PDF)

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Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Vaughan Williams. He also played pivotal role in advocating and performing the music of J.S. Bach.

Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms for nearly half a century, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel,Sibelius, and Vaughan Williams. Less known is the part Wood played in advocating and performing the music of J.S. Bach, much of which, incredibly, was unknown in England at the turn of the twentieth century. This book uncoversWood's pivotal role in the English Bach revival. Wood's performances of works such as the St Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass caused a stir; the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites became staple fixtures in the musical calendar; and his orchestral arrangements of Bach's solo works and cantata arias were key to the popularisation of the composer in England. Largely untouched, the hundreds of Bach scores individually marked up by Wood, now preservedin his archive at the Royal Academy of Music, London, reveal the minutiae of his thoughts on performance and offer a fascinating parallel to his available recordings from the period. Illuminating a significant new aspect of the musical life of England before World War II, the book also demonstrates that Wood's advocacy continues to influence perceptions of Bach even today. DR HANNAH FRENCH is an academic, broadcaster, and Baroque flautist based in London. She broadcasts regularly on Radio 3 and has appeared as a TV presenter and commentator for the BBC Proms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 353
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787444959
• Artikelnr.: 56997906

Autorenporträt

Hannah French

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Wood's Role in the English Bach Revival Bach in Pre-Proms
England Wood's Encounter with Bach Orchestral Bach at the Proms Wood's Bach
Players Performance Scores Recordings An Editorial Project Orchestral
Arrangements The Cantatas Passions and the Mass The Reception of Wood's
Bach Wood's Bach Legacy Epilogue Appendix A: The Bach Choir: Performances
of Bach's Orchestral works 1884-1944 Appendix B: John Sebastian Bach: The
times he lived in, and his life's work Appendix C: Bach Performances at the
Proms 1895-1944 Appendix D: Promenades 1941: nightly attendance and income
Appendix E: Soloists in the Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos
1895-1944 Appendix F: Members of the New Queen's Hall Orchestra 1928
Appendix G: Wood's predecessors and contemporaries in the field of Bach
arrangements and transcriptions Appendix H: A sample of Bach performances
given in 1926 Appendix I: Performances of the Brandenburg Concertos and
Orchestral Suites at the Proms 1945-2018 Bibliography