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Ravel by Roger Nichols
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.99This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealth of written and oral evidence, some newly... -
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music"An assured overview of Poulenc's life and work... -
The Life of Debussy by Roger Nichols
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92'That great blue Sphinx', Debussy called the sea. Debussy himself was something of a Sphinx: in the early 1890s he was thinking of 'founding a society for musical esotericism', and although, on the... -
The Life of Debussy by Roger Nichols 9780521570268
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09'That great blue Sphinx', Debussy called the sea. Debussy himself was something of a Sphinx: in the early 1890s he was thinking of 'founding a society for musical esotericism', and although, on the... -
From Berlioz to Boulez by Roger Nichols 9780995757479
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74Awarded the legion d'Honneur by the French government in 2006 for his services to French culture, acclaimed writer and broadcaster Roger Nichols invites the reader to accompany him on his journey... -
Camille Saint-Saens: On Music and Musicians by Roger Nichols 9780195320169
Booksplease Price: £34.10Camille Saint-Saens is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera Samson et Dalila, but also because he was a keen... -
Claude Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande by Roger Nichols 9780521314466
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.41The first comprehensive guide to Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the... -
Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen by Peter Jones 9780913705292
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.37Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan... -
Berlioz the Critic: Selected Writings from 1837 to 1850 Julian Rushton 9781648250736
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career. ... -
Henri Dutilleux: Music - Mystery and Memory: Conversations with Claude Glayman by 9781138378223
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Born in 1916, Henri Dutilleux is one of France's leading composers, enjoying an international reputation for his beautifully crafted works. This is the first translation into English of a series of... -
Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews: Notes from the Heart Nicolas Southon 9781032921471
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14'He plays the piano well,' wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. 'His compositions are not devoid of talent but he's not a genius, and I'm afraid he thinks he... -
Selected Letters of Berlioz by Professor of Music Hugh MacDonald 9780393332759
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.13Letter writing, by contrast, provided him with a freer outlet for creative expression, and his surviving correspondences number in the thousands. From that extraordinary output Hugh Macdonald has... -
The Operas of Maurice Ravel by Emily Kilpatrick
Booksplease Price: £32.12Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortileges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very... -
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... -
Olivier Messiaen: Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (1937-1948) by Richard D. E. Burton 9780190277949
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £73.97The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith. Unsurprisingly, many performers and listeners consider... -
Debussy`s Melisande - The Lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte by Gillian Opstad 9781843834595
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.52The colourful lives of the three divas who made Debussy's Melisande their own. Debussy's Melisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their... -
Maurice Durufle - The Man and His Music by James E. Frazier 9781580469609
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £35.69A deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem. Maurice Durufle: The Man and His Music is... -
Maurice Durufle - The Man and His Music by James Frazier 9781580462273
Booksplease Price: £111.92A new, deeply researched biography of the great French organist, who composed some of the best-loved works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful Requiem. Maurice Durufle: The Man and His... -
Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People by David Reimers 9780814775356
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America,... -
Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People by David Reimers 9780814775349
Booksplease Price: £90.87Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America,...