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Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in... -
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement by Simon Morrison 9780520229433
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.69An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian... -
Discombobulated: Dispatches From the Wrong Side by Simon Morrison 9781900486736
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486736Author Simon MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint -
Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer Simon Morrison 9780300284317
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the... -
A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow by Simon Morrison 9780593318454
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318454Author Simon MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer Simon Morrison 9780300192100
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.06A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the... -
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: The Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev by Simon Morrison 9780099581789
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47As heard on Radio 4 Book of the WeekLina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she... -
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison 9780007576630
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into... -
Cricut for Beginners: The Best Tips and Craft Ideas to Get Started with Your Cutting Machine! by Simona Morrison 9781804340882
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition by Simon A. Morrison 9780520305465
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £47.30Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including... -
Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 by Akim Volynsky
Booksplease Price: £23.40The first translation of the writings of Akim Volynsky, the greatest ballet authority of early twentieth-century Russia Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who... -
Dancing for Stalin: A True Story of Extraordinary Courage and Survival in the Soviet Gulag by Christina Ezrahi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.69___ An innocent woman sent to the Gulag. A passion that gave her the will to survive. 'Shattering, cinematic and brave' Simon Morrison, author of Bolshoi Confidential ___ Nina Anisimova was one... -
Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture Boris Wolfson 9780810149243
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandatesTalk of Joseph Stalin's 'show trials,' the public prosecutions in Moscow's Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to... -
Roxy Music's Avalon by Simon A. Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly... -
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only... -
Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film by Kevin Bartig 9780190213282
Booksplease Price: £49.28Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions... -
The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive by Marina Kostalevsky
Booksplease Price: £37.76This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these... -
Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music by Philip S. Taylor
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.95The first modern biography in English of Russian composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein, this book places Rubinstein within the context of Russian and western European musical culture during the late 19th... -
Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 by Samuel N. Dorf 9780197766576
Booksplease Price: £35.00Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 investigates collaborations between French and American scholars of Greek antiquity (archaeologists, philologists,... -
Rethinking Prokofiev by Rita McAllister
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.28Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his travels-he left... -
Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.11LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the...