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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Marcel Dupr: The Works of a Master Organist
- £25.00
- Murray's penetrating biography is the first comprehensive treatment of the life of the French composer and organist Marcel Dupr. The author, a former student of Dupr, has drawn upon is long association with his teacher and upon a wealth of secondary material to produce a portrait sensitive to the delicate…
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Remembering Britten
- £20.00
- This remarkable book preserves a collection of memories from Britten's friends, family and working colleagues and aims to present first-hand accounts of how this great composer lived, worked and behaved. Inevtiably there are contradictions but, as Dame Janet Baker comments, 'we show different sides to different people,' and it seems…
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Selling Britten: music and the market place
- £100.00
- At the end of the nineteenth century Britain was a country without an opera culture, and in the concert halls the Austro-Germanic symphonic repertory reigned supreme. In the following fifty years the art-music culture changed dramatically. Radio, the gramophone and the recording industry, government arts subsidies, Covent Garden, and a…
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Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (new edition)
- £18.00
- Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the composerÕs life from his early successes to his struggles under the Stalinist regime, and…
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Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life 1913-1976
- £15.00
- Donald Mitchell has here gathered together over 400 photographs which fascinatingly document the life and times of Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. This is not a picture book in the conventional sense. It sets out to document as faithully and revealingly as possible mamny majro aspects of the life…
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Marcel Dupr: The Works of a Master Organist
- £25.00
- Murray's penetrating biography is the first comprehensive treatment of the life of the French composer and organist Marcel Dupr. The author, a former student of Dupr, has drawn upon is long association with his teacher and upon a wealth of secondary material to produce a portrait sensitive to the delicate…
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Remembering Britten
- £20.00
- This remarkable book preserves a collection of memories from Britten's friends, family and working colleagues and aims to present first-hand accounts of how this great composer lived, worked and behaved. Inevtiably there are contradictions but, as Dame Janet Baker comments, 'we show different sides to different people,' and it seems…
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Selling Britten: music and the market place
- £100.00
- At the end of the nineteenth century Britain was a country without an opera culture, and in the concert halls the Austro-Germanic symphonic repertory reigned supreme. In the following fifty years the art-music culture changed dramatically. Radio, the gramophone and the recording industry, government arts subsidies, Covent Garden, and a…
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Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (new edition)
- £18.00
- Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the composerÕs life from his early successes to his struggles under the Stalinist regime, and…
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