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Mephisto
Mephisto FRANZ LISZT: MUSICIAN, CELEBRITY, SUPERSTAR, by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Stewart Spencer, Yale University Press, 2017. Reviewed by Stoddard Martin Where is the historian/biographer who can achieve something approaching pure objectivity? Who will try to comprehend how his subject … Continue reading
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Apocalypse Discs – Leslie Jones
LESLIE JONES Quarterly Review Deputy Editor Here are ten musical items in search of a desert island – hopefully, an island with WiFi! In no particular order… Les Préludes, Franz Liszt Music from this stirring and bombastic symphonic poem was … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse Discs, Blondie, Die tote Stadt, Dream of Gerontius, Elgar, Korngold, Leslie Jones, Liszt, Motorhead, Nacht und Träume, Oedipus Rex, Parsifal, Schubert, Stravinsky, The Farm, Wagner
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