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  • The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms

    The Fall and Rise of a Genre

    by Christopher Fifield ...
    It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He traces the root of the problem further back to Beethoven’s ninth symphony, a work which then proceeded to intimidate symphonists who followed in its composer ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ibbs and Tillett

    The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

    by Christopher Fifield ...
    For the greater part of the twentieth century, Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched, and included such international stars as Clara Butt, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Sergei Rachmaninov, Andr Segovia, Kathleen Ferrier, Myra Hess, Jacqueline du ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

    Revised and Enlarged Edition

    Edited by Christopher Fifield ...
    Fifty years ago, Kathleen Ferrier, the greatest lyric contralto Britain has ever produced, lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her name endures to this day, for she struck a chord with a wide-ranging public - in concerts, on records and on the radio - despite a career which lasted barely ten years. Within a decade this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Classical Music Map of Britain

    by Richard Fawkes ...
    The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and thoroughly interesting journey around our country from a classical music perspective. From Frith Street in Soho, where Mozart stayed and performed free street concerts during his only trip to England, to Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, where Joseph Parry was born and raised until he was 13, The Classical Music Map of Britain is an enchanting ... Read more

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  • Britten's Children

    by John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Read more

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  • Vaughan Williams

    Composer, Radical, Patriot - a Biography

    by Keith Alldritt ...
    The ground-breaking biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveals more than any other the man behind the music. The author examines the considerable range of Vaughan Williams's work, from the English pastoral tradition to Modernism, and shows how Vaughan Williams was influenced by the Boer War, the economic depression after the First World War, the deprivations of the Blitz, and the austerity of the ... Read more

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  • Kathleen

    The Life of Kathleen Ferrier 1912-1953

    by Maurice Leonard ...
    Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her story, from her humble beginnings as a telephone operator in Blackburn to the height of international fame as one of the world's leading concert artists and her untimely death at the age of forty-one, is told told with compelling insight and perception, using a variety of sources, from photographs, ... Read more

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  • Wrights & Wrongs

    My Life in Dance

    by Peter Wright ...
    Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He ... Read more

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  • Essential Britten

    A Pocket Guide for the Britten Centenary

    by John Bridcut ...
    John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', has included significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's music.An outline of planned chapters:- The Top Ten Britten pieces- Critics' First Impressions- Britten ... Read more

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  • Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

    The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan ( The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier ( ... Read more

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  • The Singing Elms - The Autobiography of Lauris Elms

    by Lauris Elms ...
    Moffat Oxenbould:The story of Lauris Elms' great career documents a fascinating period in the musical history of Australia, as classical singers, distinguished overseas, struggled for recognition and professional respect in their own country. with candour and a wry sense of humour, she recalls the triumphs, doubts, challenges and disappointments of an artist whose vocation was distinguished by a ... Read more

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