Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

Bookshelf

New publications of interest.

Heidi Waleson, Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America (Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt)

Anthony Tommasini, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide (Penguin)

Alan Walker, Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (FSG)

Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (Norton)

Stéphane Mallarmé, The Book, trans. Sylvia Gorelick (Exact Change)

Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Les récits cachés de Richard Wagner: Art poétique, rêve et sexualité du "Vaisseau fantôme" à "Parsifal" (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

E. Douglas Bomberger, Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture (Oxford UP, December)

Sabine Feisst, ed., Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers (Oxford UP)

Dana Gooley, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-century Music (Oxford UP)

Eugene J. Johnson, Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Cambridge UP)

Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover’s Companion to Orchestral Music (Yale UP) 

A Dylan moment

Nightafternight playlist

Anima Sacra: Sacred arias of Fago, Heinichen, Terradellas, Sarro, Feo, Zelenka, Hasse, Schiassi, Durante; Jakub Józef Orliński, Il pomo d'oro (Warner)

Kate Soper, IPSA DIXIT; Wet Ink (New World)

Du Yun, Dinosaur Scar and other works; ICE (New Focus)

Tyshawn Sorey, Pillars; Sorey, Stephen Haynes, Ben Gerstein, Todd Neufeld, Joe Morris, Carl Testa, Mark Helias, Zach Rowden (firehouse 12)

Salieri, Les Horaces; Judith van Wanroij, Cyrille Dubois, Julien Dran, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Andrew Foster-Williams, Christophe Rousset directing Les Talens Lyriques (Aparte)

Bach, Six Suites; Kim Kashkashian (ECM)

Bach, Sonata and Partita No. 1, Sonata No. 2; Hilary Hahn (Decca)

Dmitri Tymoczko, Fools & Angels and other works; Newspeak, Illinois Modern Ensemble, Collide Trio (New Focus)

Philip Glass, Symphony No. 11; Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Bruckner Orchester Linz (Orange Mountain)

Bob Dylan, More Blood, More Tracks (Columbia)

Debussy

Beauty in the Void. The New Yorker, Oct. 29, 2018.

Meyerbeer's Huguenots

The Meyerbeer Case. The New Yorker, Oct. 22, 2018.

Igor Levit's Life

A recommendation on the New Yorker website.

First nights at the Met and the NY Phil

A Cultural Comment on the New Yorker website, Oct. 4, 2018.

At the graves of Debussy and Fauré

Previously: At the grave of [X].

Final Welles

How Orson Welles's "The Other Side of the Wind" Was Rescued from Oblivion, on the New Yorker website, Sept. 26, 2018.

Godowsky plays Clair de lune