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A Guide to the Concerto Paperback - 1996

by Robert Layton (Editor)


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A Guide to the Concerto offers a fascinating survey of the growth and development of the concerto form from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars and critics under the editorship of Robert Layton, it will prove
invaluable to all who wish to understand more about this perennially popular form and expand their knowledge of the concerto repertoire.
Throughout, original and penetrating analyses that avoid technical jargon are illuminated by over 130 music examples. Among the many contributors are Dr. Robert Simpson, who discusses Beethoven's concertos with characteristic insight; H.C. Robbins Landon, foremost scholar of the Viennese
classical period; David Brown, world authority on nineteenth-century Russian music; Michael Kennedy, author of acclaimed studies on Elgar and Britten, and Peter Dickinson, composer and leading writer on American music. Robert Layton himself provides an introduction and discography with hundreds of
recommended recordings, and writes perceptively on the concerto in Scandinavia and the modern Russian concerto.
Informative and accessible, A Guide to the Concerto will both illuminate and stimulate. No serious music lover should be without it.

From the rear cover

While this book aims to offer a survey of the genre from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to the present day, it is a Guide, not a Compendium nor a History. There are essays designed to excite the curiosity of the music lover, and cast new light on repertoire we all think we are familiar with. These essays are addressed to the concert-goer, the radio listener, or record collector with an enquiring mind, and our primary goal is to bring him or her a little closer to the riches of the concerto repertoire.

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  • Title A Guide to the Concerto
  • Author Robert Layton (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1996
  • ISBN 9780192880086 / 019288008X
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.45 x 0.93 in (21.51 x 13.84 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Concerto
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96018219
  • Dewey Decimal Code 784.23

About the author


Robert Layton has been a critic for The Gramophone for thirty years and is editor of A Guide to the Symphony and co-author with Ivan March and Edward Greenfield of the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, Cassettes, and LPs.
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