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Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03Sergey 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... -
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 HeadpressPublisher... -
The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years by Simon Morrison 9780199753482
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £17.99A study in contrasts, the career of Sergey Prokofiev spanned the globe, leaving him witness to the most significant political and historical events of the first half of the twentieth century. In... -
The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years by Simon Morrison 9780195181678
RRP: £147.50Booksplease Price: £92.84A study in contrasts, the career of Sergey Prokofiev spanned the globe, leaving him witness to the most significant political and historical events of the first half of the twentieth century. In... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520304437
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520401266
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.79A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the... -
A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow by Simon Morrison 9780593318454
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318454Author Simon MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred... -
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... -
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 9781847926524
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53An erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city whose rich past offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics'A marvellous book' HELEN RAPPAPORT, author of The Rebel Romanov‘Every... -
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison 9780007576630
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42On 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: £21.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804340882Author Simona MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Simona MorrisonPublisher... -
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition by Simon A. Morrison 9780520305465
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £47.25Acclaimed 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... -
Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourie by Klara Moricz 9780199829446
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £73.97Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourie explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Lourie. A St. Petersburg native allied with... -
Dancing for Stalin: A True Story of Extraordinary Courage and Survival in the Soviet Gulag by Christina Ezrahi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.46___ 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... -
Roxy Music's Avalon by Simon A. Morrison
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.32Having 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... -
Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture Boris Wolfson 9780810149243
Booksplease Price: £29.55Examining 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... -
And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom by Stanley J. Rabinowitz 9780190943370
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.95Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida... -
And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom by Stanley J. Rabinowitz 9780190943363
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.61Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida... -
Shostakovich and His World by Laurel E. Fay
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.39Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure... -
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A 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
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £31.34Sound 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... -
Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film by Kevin Bartig 9780199967599
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £58.47Sound 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... -
Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker 9780691182704
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.50A 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... -
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... -
Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives by Davinia Caddy 9781108469951
Booksplease Price: £24.15Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers... -
Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives by Davinia Caddy
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.36Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers... -
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 9780190612092
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £60.68Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 investigates collaborations between French and American scholars of Greek antiquity (archaeologists, philologists,... -
Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 by Samuel N. Dorf 9780197766576
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.22Performing 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: £41.61Among 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...