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  • Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

    Revised and Enlarged Edition

    Edited by Christopher Fifield ...
    Fifty years ago, Kathleen Ferrier, the greatest lyric contralto Britain has ever produced, lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her name endures to this day, for she struck a chord with a wide-ranging public - in concerts, on records and on the radio - despite a career which lasted barely ten years. Within a decade this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms

    The Fall and Rise of a Genre

    by Christopher Fifield ...
    It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He traces the root of the problem further back to Beethoven’s ninth symphony, a work which then proceeded to intimidate symphonists who followed in its composer ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Ibbs and Tillett

    The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

    by Christopher Fifield ...
    For the greater part of the twentieth century, Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched, and included such international stars as Clara Butt, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Sergei Rachmaninov, Andr Segovia, Kathleen Ferrier, Myra Hess, Jacqueline du ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Benjamin Britten

    A Life in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Kildea ...
    Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer.In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of ... Read more

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  • The Classical Music Map of Britain

    by Richard Fawkes ...
    The Classical Music Map of Britain is a charming and thoroughly interesting journey around our country from a classical music perspective. From Frith Street in Soho, where Mozart stayed and performed free street concerts during his only trip to England, to Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan, where Joseph Parry was born and raised until he was 13, The Classical Music Map of Britain is an enchanting ... Read more

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  • Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new ... Read more

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  • Britten's Children

    by John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Read more

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  • Vaughan Williams

    Composer, Radical, Patriot - a Biography

    by Keith Alldritt ...
    The ground-breaking biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveals more than any other the man behind the music. The author examines the considerable range of Vaughan Williams's work, from the English pastoral tradition to Modernism, and shows how Vaughan Williams was influenced by the Boer War, the economic depression after the First World War, the deprivations of the Blitz, and the austerity of the ... Read more

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  • Wrights & Wrongs

    My Life in Dance

    by Peter Wright ...
    Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He ... Read more

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  • Letters from a Life Vol 2: 1939-45

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. At the same time, the relationship between Britten and Pears deepened into a partnership that was to endure for almost forty years.Their absence from England during the first years of the war led to sharp public comment and ... Read more

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  • Essential Britten

    A Pocket Guide for the Britten Centenary

    by John Bridcut ...
    John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', has included significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's music.An outline of planned chapters:- The Top Ten Britten pieces- Critics' First Impressions- Britten ... Read more

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