Art music, orchestral and formal music

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the WeekLina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Originally published in 1934, this is an exhaustive examination of one of Bach's greatest works, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this great composer.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;Nel cor piu non mi sento"e; (Why feels my heart so dormant) is a soprano aria from act 2 in Giovanni Paisiello's 1788 opera L'amor contrastato, ossia La molinara, usually known as La molinara.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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This wonderful piece "e;Violin Sonata No.

This wonderful piece "e;Moonlight Sonata"e; by Ludwig van Beethoven contains a score for solo piano.

This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir .

First published in 1927, J.

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity.

Mozart: A Cultural Biography is a fresh interpretation of a musical genius, meticulously researched and gracefully written.

Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970.

THE EXTRAORDINARY, HEARTFELT MEMOIR OF THE LATE MUSICAL GENIUS'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me.

Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria.

Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture?

Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s most performed composer of the same period.

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten.

Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work.

For over three decades now, David Byrne has been a leading light in American culture - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art, and writing.

Indian classical music is so enduring that it is exempt from oblivion.

What in the World is Music?

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love.

The band, the lifestyle, the revolution.

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'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times'Funny and moving' - Jarvis CockerMusic critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all.

By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cos fan tutte and Don Giovanni.

'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins.

In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation.

Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music.

In this book, first published in 1972, Indian music is given the comprehensive treatment it so richly deserves.

In this book, first published in 1972, Indian music is given the comprehensive treatment it so richly deserves.

The 1909 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among littA(c)rateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not native to France.

The 1909 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among littA(c)rateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not native to France.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.