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Eric Sams on the "Clara-theme"

 

 

 

 

 

Eric Sams: I Lieder di Robert Schumann

 

Prefazione di Gerald Moore

Traduzione, versione italiana delle

poesie e analisi samsiana dei duetti

di Schumann a cura di Erik Battaglia

 

Asti, Analogon 2010

[recensione online]

 

 

 

Eric Sams

 

Collected Essays, Reviews and Letters

on Music, on Shakespeare, on Cryptography

 

WORKS ON MUSIC I

 

a) Books   b) Contributions to books and series   c) Essays  d) Articles, work-lists

e) Music editions  f) Radio and TV scripts g) Opera reviews  h) Song translations

 

next  i) Music Reviews  

 

 

a) BOOKS

 
1. The Songs of Hugo Wolf, Methuen 1961, Eulenburg 2/1983, 3/1992, Faber Finds 4/2008
[pp. xii, 401; ISBN 0 903873 32 X] [1] [2] [3]
2. The Songs of Robert Schumann, Methuen 1969, Eulenburg 2/1975, 3/1993, Faber Finds 4/2008
[pp. xii, 292; ISBN 0 903873 18 4]  [1] [2] [3] (Italian trans. I Lieder di Robert Schumann, Analogon 2009)
3. Brahms Songs, BBC 1972, 2/1980 [pp.  68; ISBN 0 563 10431 7]  [1]  [2]  [3]
(French trans. Les Lieder de Johannes Brahms, Actes Sud 1989; Italian trans. Introduzione ai Lieder di
Brahms, Analogon 2008)
4. The Songs of Johannes Brahms, Yale 2000 [pp. xii, 370; ISBN 0 300 07962 1]  [1]  [2]  [3]   

 

b) CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND SERIES top

 

1. The Songs in Schumann: The Man & His Music, ed. A. Walker, 1972 (pp. 120-161)* [.PDF]  [1]
2. Schumann and the Tonal Analogue, id. (pp. 390-405) [See also c8 and v9.2]*
3. Schubert work-list, in The New Grove Schubert (with M. J. Brown), Norton 1980 (pp.106-165) [see also d5 [1]
4. Wolf, in The New Grove Late Romantic Masters, Norton 1980 (see also d8, below)
5. Schumann Interview to Eric Sams* (2 oct. 1988) by John C. Tibbetts,  broadcasted
  in The World of Robert Schumann Series
  © John C. Tibbetts 2004  [in: www.johnctibbetts.com/World of Robert Schumann/assets/intvw_sams.htm]

 

c) ESSAYS (MT = Musical Times) top

    

1. Schumann’s year of song, MT 1965 [.PDF]
2. Did Schumann use Ciphers?, MT 1965 [.PDF] and Letters and Comments
(German trans. Hat Schumann in seinen Werken Chiffren benutzt?, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1966)
3. The Schumann Ciphers, MT 1966 [.PDF]
4. The Schumann Ciphers: a coda, MT 1966 [.PDF]
5. Why Florestan and Eusebius?, MT 1967 [.PDF]
6. Freud's Theory of Art (Review of An anatomy of musical criticism, by Alan Walker), MT 1967 [see also v9.1]
7. Politics, Literature, People – in Schumann’s op.136,  MT 1968 [.PDF]
8. The Tonal Analogue in Schumann’s music, Royal Musical Association 1969-70
9. Elgar’s cipher Letter to Dorabella, MT 1970 [.PDF] [not on music - also listed as U.2]
10. Variations on an original theme (Enigma), MT 1970 [.PDF] and Letters to the Editor
11. Elgar’s Enigmas, MT 1970 [.PDF] and Letters to the editor
12. Elgar's cipher table, 1970-1 - previously unpublished [.PDF]
13. A Schumann Primer?, MT 1970  [.PDF]
14. Brahms and his Musical Love-Letters, MT 1970 [.PDF]
15. Brahms and his Clara-Themes, MT 1971 [.PDF]
16. Schumann’s Hand injury, MT 1971 [.PDF]
17. Schumann’s Hand injury - Some further evidence, [.PDF] MT 1972
18. Schumann and Faust, MT 1972 [.PDF] and Letter to the Editor (Thomas Mann and Schumann)
19. Zwei Brahms-Rätsel, Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 1972 [.PDF]
20. Von ewiger Liebe, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1972 [see 19 above]
21. Notes on a Magic Horn, MT 1974 [.PDF]
22. Footnotes on a Magic Horn (Letter to the Editor referring to n. 21 above), MT 1975
23. Literary Sources of Hugo Wolf’s String Quartets, Musical Newsletter 1974
23a. Abstract of the above essay, with an added detail; RILM abstracts VIII/2-3 1974
24. Peter Cornelius, MT 1974 [.PDF]
25. Homage to Eduard Mörike, MT 1975 [.PDF]
26. Eduard Hanslick. The perfect anti-Wagnerite, MT 1975 [.PDF]
27. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), New Statesman 1976 [.PDF]
28. E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1776-1822, MT 1976 [.PDF]
29. Schubert’s piano duets, MT 1976 [.PDF]
30.

Maria Callas, New Statesman, Sept. 1977
31. Notes on a Magic Flute. The origins of the Schubertian Lied, MT 1978 [.PDF]
32. Schubert and OED2, MT 1979 [.PDF]
33. Schubert’s Illness Re-examined MT 1980  [.PDF]
34. Elgar's Enigmas, Music and Letters 1997 [.PDF]

 

d) ARTICLES, WORK-LISTS top

 

1. "Ballad", § 2 in New Grove 1980/R 2001 (with G. Johnson)
2. "Cryptography, musical", in New Grove 1980/R 2001 [see U.12]
3. “Hanslick, Eduard“, in New Grove 1980
4. “Mörike, Eduard“, id. [Eduard Mörike]
5. “Schubert work-list”, id./R 2001
6. “Schumann work-list”, id./R 2001 [Excerpt:  Catalogue of the Songs]
7. “The Romantic Lied", § 4 (pp. 838-844) di "Lied", id. (/R 2001 with G. Johnson)
8.  “Wolf” e “Wolf work-list”, id.*
9. “Wolf” in Dizionario della Musica e dei Musicisti, UTET (1/2)
10. [Catalogue of Brahms Songs, edited by the Centro Studi, from E.S.'s writings]

 

e) MUSIC EDITIONS (Pref., Introd., Commentary) top

 

1. Schumann: Cello-Konzert op.129, ed. by Max Hochklofer (Foreword by E.S.)*, Eulenburg 1971
2. Schumann: Papillons op.2 (Introd. and Commentary by E.S.) 1994-6 (unpubd.)
  (forthcoming English/Italian edition, Analogon 2010)
  [click to enlarge]

 

f) RADIO AND TV SCRIPTS (in progress) top

 

1. Carl Loewe (Radio script), 1980s
2. Code and Cipher in Music [Radio Script, ?1980s, also listed as U.15]
3. Code and cipher in music (TV script) [see U.16]
 

 

g) OPERA REVIEWS (New Statesman, if not otherwise stated) top

 

1. Mara, MT, Feb. 1966
2. Macbeth, Oct. 1976
3. Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Eine Nacht in Venedig, Dec. 1976
4. Troilus and Cressida, Nov. 1976
5. Così fan tutte, Nov. 1976
6. Falstaff, Jun. 1977
7. The Fairy Queen, Jun. 1977
8. The Pirates, Jul. 1977
9. The Ice Break, Jul. 1977
10. Die schweigsame Frau, Jul. 1977
11. Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress, Aug. 1977
12. Der Ring des Nibelungen, Sept. 1977
13. La Vie Parisienne, La Bohême, Sept. 1977
14. Tosca, Don Carlos, Werther, Oct. 1977
15. Blue Murder, Nov. 1977
16. Aci e Galatea, Ezio, Euryanthe, Salome, Nov. 1977
17. Lohengrin, Nov. 1977
18. Macbeth, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dec. 1977
19. Muzio Scevola, Die Zauberflöte, Il Trovatore, Dec. 1977
20. The Creation, Maria Stuarda, Dalibor, Orpheus in the Underworld, Jan. 1978
21. Die Fledermaus, From the House of the Dead, Jan. 1978
22. Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Gianni Schicchi, The Lambton Worm, Feb. 1978
23. Idomeneo, Mar. 1978
24. Kiss me, Kate, Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 1987
25. High Society, TLS, Mar. 1987
26. Carmen Jones, TLS, Apr. 1991
27. Königskinder, TLS, Feb. 1992

 
h) SONG TRANSLATIONS top

 
1. Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang (previously unpublished)
2. Franz Schubert: 18 ausgewählte Lieder (previously unpublished)
3. Robert Schumann: 246 Lieder (see a.2)
4. Johannes Brahms: 204 Lieder (see a.4)
5. Hugo Wolf: 245 Lieder (see a.1)
6. Selected Songs (previously unpublished)

 

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