Before the gramophone could do justice to an orchestra, it was able to reproduce the human voice with comparative fidelity. Steane examines the great mass of singing on record and follows the fortunes of modern singers as well as old, in song, opera, and choral singing. This corrected second edition includes a preface and bibliography.
Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language. ...
This complete discography of all Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's recordings is illuminatingly enhanced by the singer's own candid comments and reflections. Schwarzkopf is the only recording musician ever to have examined her own legacy of recordings in any detail, and her discussions with John Steane, which form the first part of this book, are ...
John Steane's experience and knowledge of singers is truly phenomenal, and he has an uncanny ability to convey a singer's special qualities through the printed page. This collection includes brief profiles of Bjorling, Callas, Domingo, Pavarotti, Tibbett, Terfel, and te Kanawa. 100 illustrations.
The subjects of this third volume range from survivors of the so-called Golden Age of the 1890s, such as the formidable Lotte Lehman, to those whom the 20th century has bequeathed to the 21st, such as Cecilia Bartoli and Ian Bostridge. This is a personal selection that includes many of the great names, including Melchior, heldentenor of the ...
In this, second of John Steane's three-volume "Singers of the Century", another 59 singers are added to the series. The portraits clarify what is special about the singers, relating their art their careers, characters and personal circumstances. As in Volume One, the singers range from some of the very earliest to others who are still before the ...
In his previous books about singers, author John Steane focused on the art of classical singing. In SINGERS OF THE CENTURY, he turns to the singers themselves, seeing how their art develops with the opportunities of their professional lives. Featured are Emma Calve, Geraldine Farrar, tenors Smirnov and Sobinov, and others. Each study is a ...
This complete discography of all Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's recordings is enhanced by the opera singer's own comments and reflections. Her discussions with the critic John Steane reveal her self-criticism and her delight in her art. Alan Sanders's discography catalogues all Schwarzkopf's recordings on vinyl, cassette and compact disc, covering the ...
John Steane introduces here a further collection of vignettes on the life, art and times of famous singers. This third and final volume ranges from some, such as the formidable Lilli Lehman, who were survivors from the so-called golden age of the 1890s, to others - Cecilia Bertoli and Ian Bostridge among them - whom the twentieth century has ...
This is a thorough critical study of Marlowe's entire output - plays, translations and poems - prefaced by a biographical chapter. It is an attempt to provide the 'life and works' study for the general reader. Mr Steane takes the poetry as the centre of his interest; offering a literary judgement on Marlowe's art rather than further discussion of ...
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