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Sibelius Volume III: 1914-1957
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 21.86Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his monumental and acclaimed study of Jean Sibelius's life and music in 1960 and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His study differs from other work on the composer in one important respect: he had unrestricted access to the composer's papers, diaries and letters as well as the advantage of numerous conversations... more...
Camille Saint-Saens
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 21.86Camille Saint-Saëns began as a child prodigy and was acclaimed in his lifetime as the incarnation of French genius. His was one of the longest careers in musical history, stretching from the traditions of Beethoven to the innovations of the twentieth century, including one of the earliest film scores. As a virtuoso pianist he achieved international... more...
Purcell
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 21.86In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth, churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine music survived. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, one of the first things he demanded was music, sacred and profane, anthems and motets, pavannes and gavottes. In 1659 Henry Purcell was born, and his genius... more...
Toscanini in Britain
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 50.00Although the most renowned conductor of his era, Toscanini spent much of the first half of his career in a handful of opera houses in Italy and the United States: only in the 1920s did he start to conduct in the world's great capital cities. Among these centres, London became the most favoured; Toscanini's thirty concerts there between 1930... more...
Singing in Russian
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 69.99Founded on the underlying principle that sung language differs dramatically from spoken language, Singing in Russian offers a comprehensive and accessible approach to understanding, mastering, and performing Russian vocal music. After covering the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian grammar and diction, author Emily Olin encourages readers... more...
Benjamin Britten
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailablePublished to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier.... more...
Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer... more...
My Brother Benjamin
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94'People are always asking, 'Aren't you proud of your famous brother?' I was, of course, but often wished he was not so famous so that one could see more of this brother who was such a joy to be with. Janet Baker has written that the air crackled when he walked into the room, and she was right...' The younger of Benjamin Britten's two sisters,... more...
Bartók's Mikrokosmos
Scarecrow Press 2004; US$ 39.99Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. more...









