The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist: An English Experience

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of musical examples -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- PART I Introduction and background -- 1 Introduction -- Rationale and primary method -- Sources and other methods -- Research questions and book plan -- 2 Musical life in mid-twentieth-century England -- The war years -- Post-Second World War -- Summary -- PART II Career development and sustenance -- 3 Getting started in the profession -- Preamble -- Making a debut -- Auditions -- Piano competitions -- Networks -- Summary -- 4 Sustaining a career (1) - management and promotion -- Management -- Publicity and promotion -- Summary -- 5 Sustaining a career (2) - the working pianist -- Engagements -- An international profile -- Broadcasting -- Recording -- Repertoire -- Reviews -- A portfolio career -- Drawing the threads -- PART III Performance practice -- 6 Pedagogical influences -- Mid-twentieth-century pedagogy -- Tone -- 7 In search of an English school of pianism -- Preamble -- Presenting the interpretative analyses -- Nature -- Tonal beauty -- A mid-twentieth-century English school of pianism -- An early twenty-first-century English school of pianism? -- Appearance and Werktreue -- 8 Closing thoughts -- The state of play of early twenty-first-century English pianism -- Bibliography -- Archival collections -- Select discography -- YouTube links -- Index

• | Author: Julian Hellaby
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 14, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147248486X
• | ISBN-13: 9781472484864