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Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten Vol. 5 (1958-65) Edited by Philip Reed & Mervyn Cooke Boydell Press, hardback 830 pp £45 ISBN 978-1-843-83591-2 Click here to purchase this book from our online shop This acclaimed series reaches its fifth volume, covering a period of intense activity in his life and works, culminating in his great pacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. > Further information on Benjamin Britten |
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The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten by John Bridcut Faber & Faber paperback 352 pp £8.99 ISBN 978-0-571-23776-0 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon In this incisive pocket guide, John Bridcut discusses Britten’s music and explores his musical influences, his complex personality, his emotional and professional relationships with men, women, and children, and the fascinating nooks and crannies of his daily life which are normally overlooked. An indispensable source of fresh insights into this towering figure in British music. > Further information on Benjamin Britten |
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Im Spiegel der Zeit Die Komponistin Unsuk Chin ed. Stefan Drees Schott, Mainz 2011 (in German) 240 pp., hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7957-0760-6, EUR 39.00 Available at www.schott-musik.de > Further information on Unsuk Chin |
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Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music by Diana McVeagh Boydell Press, paperback 352 pp £14.99 ISBN 978-1-843-83602-5 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon In this lively and sensitive study of his life and works, Diana McVeagh, the renowned Elgar and Finzi scholar has made use of interviews with the main figures in Finzi's life, correspondence with contemporaries such as Vaughan Williams, Edmund Blunden, Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra, Howard Ferguson and Herbert Howells, and her access to previously unpublished material in the form of his widow, Joy's, unpublished journal. The Finzi that emerges is a multi-faceted and complex character: the author shows how he developed from a solitary, introverted youth into a man with strong views and a myriad of interests. She also discusses every work within the narrative of Finzi's life, and shows what makes his output so outstanding. > Further information on Gerald Finzi |
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Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide by Deborah Schwartz-Kates Routledge hardback 230 pp £95.00 ISBN 978-0-415-97318-2 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon > Further information on Alberto Ginastera |
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Martinu and the Symphony by Michael Crump Toccata Press, hardback 512 pp £50.00 ISBN 978-0-907-68965-2 Click here to purchase this book from our online shop Martinu and the Symphony is not only the first book in English intended to help the music-lover to a deeper understanding of his glorious symphonies - it is also by far the most comprehensive work on the subject in any language. Each Symphony is examined in turn, the analyses revealing what makes each creation so individual yet also so clearly part of a close-knit family of works and identifying the elements of his melodic, harmonic and instrumental style which produce Martinu's very personal vibrant and organic symphonic manner. > Further information on Bohuslav Martinu |
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MIT ANDEREN AUGEN Vom Kind gehörloser Eltern zum Komponisten btb, Munich 2011; 256pp, hardcover (in German) ISBN 978-3-442-75296-2, EUR 19.99 To purchase this book from Amazon, click here now > Further information on Helmut Oehring |
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The Sound of Finnish Angels: Musical Signification in Five Instrumental Compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara by Wojciech Stepien Paperback Pendragon Press (15 October 2011) ISBN-10: 1576471713 ISBN-13: 978-1576471715 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon Stepien’s book is not only the first comprehensive study of the topic of “angels” in music but also the first to explore Rautavaara’s mystical aesthetics and philosophy." > Further information on Einojuhani Rautavaara |
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Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser 350pp, Yale University Press Hardback £18.99 ISBN 978-0300169331 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon Lesser has constructed a fascinating narrative in which the fifteen quartets, considered one at a time in chronological order, lead the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped Shostakovich's singular, emblematic twentieth-century life. > Further information on Dmitri Shostakovich |
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