Mahler's symphonies; Volume 3 on Mozart's instrumental works; Volume 4 on Mozart's vocal works; Volume 5 on Dvořák's music; Volume 6 on Haydn's music; Volume 9 on Shostakovich's symphonies and concertos; Volume 12 on the orchestral works of Sibelius; Volume 22 on Leonard Bernstein's orchestral music; Volume 25 on the music of Richard Strauss; Volume 28 on the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; and a volume on the music of George Frideric Handel. Other books include studies of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, and the Brahms symphonies. In 2020 Hurwitz launched a YouTube channel on which he regularly posts video reviews and discographical surveys. Musicological scholarship Hurwitz has published two articles on the subject of vibrato in 19th-century musical performance. His study "'So Klingt Wien': Conductors, Orchestras, and Vibrato in the 19th and Early 20th Century", was published in the journal Music and Letters in February 2012. In it, Hurwitz marshals evidence from period treatises and other sources to oppose the arguments of musicologist Clive Brown, conductor Sir Roger Norrington, and others that orchestral string players applied vibrato only as an ornament, not as a basic sound. He furthers that the basic orchestral string tone was "straight" or vibrato-free—during the period in question; Hurwitz argues that continuous vibrato was, instead, already typical. In a 2014 study, "Vibrato, the Orchestral Organ and the ‘Prevailing Aesthetic’ in Nineteenth-Century Symphonic Music," published in the Cambridge University Press journal Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Hurwitz surveyed extensive evidence on the design of organs in the nineteenth century. His sources included correspondence, published articles, transcriptions, and actual organs surviving intact from the era. He argues that they demonstrate that in seeking to capture the sound of string sections as faithfully as possible, organ builders of the nineteenth century were unanimous and quite explicit in reporting that string sections played with continuous vibrato. Publications Books Articles References Notes Citations External links Articles by David Hurwitz on the Classics Today website Articles by David Hurwitz on the Reference Recordings website Living people American music critics Writers from Wilmington, Delaware Johns Hopkins University alumni Stanford University alumni 1961 births Classical music critics