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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Eighties | |
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| The Music Itself: Glenn Gould?s Contrapuntal Vision | |
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| Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art | |
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| Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals) | |
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| On Richard Strauss | |
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| Die Walkre, Aida, X | |
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| Music and Feminism | |
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| Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) | |
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| Middle Age and Performers | |
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| The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos | |
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| The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni | |
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| Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum | |
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| Giulio Cesare | |
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| Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung | |
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| Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache) | |
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| Peter Sellars's Mozart | |
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| Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall | |
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| The Nineties | |
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| Richard Strauss | |
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| Wagner and the Met?s Ring | |
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| Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust) | |
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| Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) | |
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| Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts) | |
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| Die Tote Stadt, Fidelio, The Death of Klinghoffer | |
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| Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) | |
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| Musical Retrospection | |
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| The Bard Festival | |
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| The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner | |
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| Music as Gesture (on Solti) | |
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| Les Troyens | |
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| Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life) | |
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| 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould | |
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| Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation) | |
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| Why Listen to Boulez? | |
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| Hindemith and Mozart | |
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| Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner | |
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| In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius) | |
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| On Fidelio | |
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| Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress) | |
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| Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy& mdash;An Autobiography | |
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| Bach for the Masses | |
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| 2000 and Beyond | |
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| Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries) | |
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| Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual | |
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| Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) | |
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| Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo | |
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| Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven) | |
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| Appendix: Bach/Beethoven | |
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| Index | |