Choral masterworks from Bach to Britten : reflections of a conductor /
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
- George Frideric Handel: Messiah
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339
- Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123
- Franz Schubert: Mass in G major, D. 167
- Felix Mendelssohn: Suggestions for abridged versions of Elijah
- Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
- Giuseppe Verdi: Manzoni Requiem
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8 ("Symphony of a thousand")
- Recording the Mahler Eighth with Robert Shaw
- Thank you note from Robert Shaw
- Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, op. 48
- Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9
- Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
- Benjamin Britten: relationships of the Latin Requiem mass to Wilfred Owen's poetry in the Britten War Requiem
- Appendix A: Text organizational chart for Handel's Messiah
- Appendix B: Text organizational chart for Mendelssohn's Elijah
- Appendix C: The textual organization of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Passion according to St. Matthew
- Appendix D: Translation of the text of the Ordinary of the Mass
- Appendix E: Translation of the text of the Requiem Mass
- Selected discography of CD recordings
- Selected bibliography
- Index of names
- About the author.