The Symphonic Repertoire. Volume 3. Part B. The European Symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930: Great Britain, Russia, and France

The definitive study of the Romantic British, Russian, and French symphony.

CONTENIDO:

Preface to the series
Preface to volume III
Postscript
Acknowledgments
List of plates
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Orchestral instrumentation
Identification of the works

Volume III Part B: Great Britain, Russia, France

Section Four - The British Symphony

Chapter Fourteen - The Symphony in Great Britain: From Potter to Elgar
The Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1800 to ca. 1850
Cipriani Potter
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
Symphony [No. 2] in B-flat Major
Symphony No. 6 in C Minor
Symphony No. 7 in F Major
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major
Symphony No. 10 in G Minor
Symphony No. 11 in D Major
Symphony No. 12 in C Minor
Symphony No. 15[14] in D Major
Conclusion

William Sterndale Bennett
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major WO 20 and Symphony
No. 2 in D Minor WO 23
Symphony No. 4 in A Major WO 28
Symphony No. 5 in G Minor WO 31
Symphony No. 8 in G Minor Opus 43
Conclusion

The Symphonic Milieu from ca. 1850 to 1912

Charles Villiers Stanford
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor "Elegiac"
Symphony No. 3 in F Minor Opus 28 "Irish"
Symphony No. 4 in F Major Opus 31
Symphony No. 5 in D Major Opus 56 "L'Allegro ed
il Pensieroso[sic]"
Symphony No. 6 in E-flat Major Opus 94
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor Opus 124
Conclusion

C. Hubert H. Parry
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in G Major
Symphony No. 2 in F Major "Cambridge" or
"University"
Symphony No. 3 in C Major "English"
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor "Finding the Way"
Symphony No. 5 in B Minor "Symphonic Fantasia"
Conclusion: Parry's Symphonies and his Symphony
Article in Grove's Dictionary

Edward Elgar
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major Opus 55
Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major Opus 63
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (fragment)
Conclusion

Conclusion: The British Symphony

Bibliographic Overview

Section Five - The Russian Symphony

Chapter Fifteen - The Symphony in Russia: From Glinka to Rachmaninoff
In Collaboration with Lynn Sargeant

The Symphonic Milieu

The Seeds of the Russian Symphony: Mikhail Glinka

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat/E Minor Opus 1
Symphony No. 2 Opus 9 "Antar"
Symphony No. 3 in C Major Opus 32
Symphonic Suite Sheherazade in E Major Opus 35
Conclusion

Aleksandr Borodin
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major
Symphony No. 2 in B Minor
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor (fragment)
Conclusion

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor Opus 13 "Winter Dreams"
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Opus 17 "Little
Russian"
Symphony No. 3 in D Major Opus 29 "Polish"
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor Opus 36
Manfred Symphony Opus 58
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor Opus 64
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor Opus 74 "Pathétique"
Conclusion

Mily Balakirev
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor
Conclusion

Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
Symphony No. 2 in A Major
Conclusion

Serge Rachmaninoff
Introduction
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor Opus 13
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Opus 27
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor Opus 44
Conclusion

Conclusion: What Makes a Symphony Russian?

Bibliographic Overview


Section Six - The French Symphony
By Brian Hart

Chapter Sixteen - The French Symphony after Berlioz: From the Second Empire to the First World War

Introduction: The Symphony in Mid-Century

Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Symphony No. 2 in E-flat Major
Little Symphony

Georges Bizet
Symphony in C Major
Symphony in C Major: Roma

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony in A Major (Ratner 159)
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major Opus 2 (Ratner
161)
Symphony in F Major "Urbs Roma" (Ratner 163)
Symphony No. 2 in A Minor Opus 55 (Ratner 164)

Between Saint-Saëns's Second and Third: The "Revival" of Instrumental Music after 1870

Camille Saint-Saëns (continued):
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor Opus 78 "Organ" (Ratner 176)

French Symphonies after 1885: Classical and Romantic Camps

Édouard Lalo
Symphony in G Minor

César Franck
Symphony in D Minor Opus 48 (Fauquet 130)

Ernest Chausson
Symphony in B-flat Major Opus 20

Paul Dukas
Symphony in C Major

Vincent d'Indy
Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Symphonie
cévénole) Opus 25

Between the Mountain Air and d'Indy's Second: The Symphony at the Turn of the Century

Vincent d'Indy (continued):
Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Opus 57
Symphony No. 3 Opus 70 "Sinfonia brevis de bello gallico"

Guy Ropartz
Symphony No. 3 in E Major

Charles Tournemire

Three Symphonists from the Conservatoire
Théodore Dubois
Charles-Marie Widor
André Gedalge

Albéric Magnard
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor Opus 4
Symphony No. 2 in E Major Opus 6
Symphony No. 3 in B-flat Minor Opus 11
Symphony No. 4 in C-sharp Minor Opus 21

Conclusion
Bibliographic Overview
Index