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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Kein Tag ohne Musik

by Jonathan Cott
(German by Susanne Röckel)
Edition Elke Heidenreich / C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012
ISBN 978-3-570-58037-0, Hardcover, 160 pp, 17.99 EUR

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A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea

Allen Lane (Penguin) 978-1-846-14232-1
harback 688 pp

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Britten in Pictures, ed. by Lucy Walker

Boydell Press 978-1-843-83749-7
paperback 288 pp

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Letters from a Life: Vol. 6, ed. by Philip Reed & Meryvn Cooke

Boydell Press 978-1-843-83725-1
hardback 880 pp

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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre, by David Beard

Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89534-7
hardback 485 pp

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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

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VICTOR FENIGSTEIN
Lebensprotokoll - Werkkommentare - Kataloge

by Fritz Hennenberg
PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2013
978-3-89727-475-4, 292pp, paperback, EUR 28.00

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NEUGIER IST ALLES
Der Komponist Detlev Glanert

ed. Stefan Drees
288pp, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-936000-80-1, EUR 29.00
Available at www.wolke-verlag.de

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Blue Silence

The complete works for string quartet

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> Further information on Elena Kats-Chernin
CONTACT!: Gran Duo & Frankenstein!!

Part of The New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series.

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> Further information on Magnus Lindberg
CONTACT! Lindberg: Arena

Part of New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series.

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CONTACT! Lindberg: Feria

Part of the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series.

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CONTACT! Lindberg: Souvenir

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TIME IN FLUX
Die Komponistin Ursula Mamlok

by Habakuk Traber
Böhlau, Wien-Köln-Weimar 2012
282 pp., hardcover, ISBN 978-3-412-20440-2, EUR 24.90
Available at www.boehlau-verlag.com

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Sergey Prokofiev Diaries

The third and final volume of Prokofiev's Diaries covers the years 1924 to 1933 when he was living in Paris. Intimate accounts of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two World Wars jostle with witty and trenchant commentaries on the personalities who made up this world.

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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

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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."


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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

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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
Noah im Kalten Krieg
Igor Strawinskys Musical Play "The Flood"

by Hannah Dübgen
(Musiksoziologie 17)
Bärenreiter, Kassel 2012
Pb., 131 S., ISBN 978-3-7618-2265-4, EUR 29,95
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> Further information on Igor Stravinsky
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