Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Music Examples xv
5. List of Tables xvi
6. Prologue xvii
7. Acknowledgements xxiv
8. Abbreviations xxvi
9. Part I Contextualising
10. Introduction: Wood’s Role in the English Bach Revival 1
11. 1 Bach in Pre-Proms England 9
12. Part II Programming
13. 2 Wood’s Encounter with Bach 23
14. 3 Orchestral Bach at the Proms 37
15. 4 Wood’s Bach Players 57
16. Part III Interpreting
17. 5 Performance Scores 69
18. 6 Recordings 95
19. 7 An Editorial Project 117
20. 8 Orchestral Arrangements 151
21. Part IV. Interpreting
22. Chapter 9. The Cantatas 185
23. Chapter 10. Passions and the Mass 215
24. Part V. Influencing
25. Chapter 11. The Reception of Wood’s Bach 241
26. Chapter 12. Wood’s Bach Legacy 257
27. Epilogue 271
28. Appendix A: The Bach Choir: Performances of Bach’s Orchestral Works, 1884–1944 275
29. Appendix B: John Sebastian Bach: The Times he Lived in, and his Life’s Work 277
30. Appendix C: Bach Performances at the Proms, 1895–1944 280
31. Appendix D: Promenades 1941: Nightly Attendance and Income 282
32. Appendix E: Soloists in the Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos, 1895–1944 283
33. Appendix F: Members of the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra, 1928 287
34. Appendix G: Wood’s Predecessors and Contemporaries in the Field of Bach Arrangements and Transcriptions 288
35. Appendix H: A Sample of Bach Performances Given in 1926 291
36. Appendix I: Performances of the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites at the Proms, 1945–2018 293 293
37. Bibliography 295
38. General Index 315
39. Index of Works by J.S. Bach 325