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MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPOSERS - FACE TO FACE
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of ...
A revealing insight into Rachmaninoff's intense and often melodramatic life. The musical child of Russia's golden age, Sergei Rachmaninoff, was the last of ...
A beautifully illustrated guide to the lives and works of more than 90 of the world's greatest ever composers
"The only love affair I ...
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?
In the 1930s, composers and musicians began ...
The conversations the 63-year-old Rossini had with Ferdinand Hiller in Trouville in Normandy in September 1855, and the finely drafted impression of Rossini himself with ...
In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today ...
'Magnificent.' - Kate Mosse'Riveting.' - Antonia Fraser
'Wonderful.' - Claire Tomalin
'Splendid.' - Miranda Seymour
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Vic-torian composer ...
'Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ .] riveting andrevelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is ...
Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means to be a ...
Did Margaret Sutherland achieve more for Australian music than any other composer?
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In ...
Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as 'one of the essential artists of our time ...
How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of ...
Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera, the swooning orchestration of a ...
'Sharply insightful and vividly imaginative... the perfect Christmas gift for anyone asking: 'How do I get into classical music?'' - Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday
'A ...
The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new technologies, social revolution and seismic geopolitical changes ...