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The Music of the Arabs by Habib Hassan Toumar 9781574670813
Booksplease Price: £27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670813Author Habib Hassan ToumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher... -
Herman Klein and the Gramophone by William R. Moran 9780931340185
Booksplease Price: £48.35From Klein's comments on early recordings that remain available today the reader can get a glimpse of what legendary singers such as Patti and Lind sounded like more than a century ago. The essays... -
Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies by Constantin Floros 9781574670257
Booksplease Price: £27.89Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works revealing their programmatic and personal... -
Listening to Handel: An Owner's Manual by David Hurwitz 9781574674873
Booksplease Price: £36.66Of all the biggest-name composers Handel probably wrote the most truly great music that no one knows about. This book takes the curious listener through his entire output from his earliest works in... -
Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music by Paul Roberts 9781538143346
Booksplease Price: £31.87A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar.Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading... -
Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine by Laureen Nussbaum
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.42During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to... -
Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre Jeffrey Langford 9781032459783
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera.Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and... -
Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations by Bruno Monsaingeon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'To Richter (no first name necessary), warm greetings to the best pianist in the Soviet Union - indeed in the whole world.' ProkofievThroughout a life dedicated to music, Richter maintained a... -
Claude Debussy by Paul Roberts 9780714835129
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.50Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a great harmonic innovator and one of the most original musical voices of the twentieth century. He created fresh, new tonal perspectives without abandoning tonality... -
Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists by Anthony Feinstein 9781943876419
RRP: £41.77Booksplease Price: £35.41Moral courage is much in the spotlight today given an upsurge in authoritarian regimes world-wide. Award-winning psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein offers his expert perspective on why investigative... -
Bach's "St. Matthew Passion": A Closer Look by Victor Lederer 9780826429407
Booksplease Price: £25.91This is an in-depth study of a seminal work, first performed in 1727.Johann Sebastian Bach's the "St. Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Conceived within the...