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  • The Singing Elms - The Autobiography of Lauris Elms

    by Lauris Elms ...
    Moffat Oxenbould:The story of Lauris Elms' great career documents a fascinating period in the musical history of Australia, as classical singers, distinguished overseas, struggled for recognition and professional respect in their own country. with candour and a wry sense of humour, she recalls the triumphs, doubts, challenges and disappointments of an artist whose vocation was distinguished by a ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius.A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain south of San Francisco and ... Read more

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  • Give Me Excess of It

    by Richard Gill ...
    Richard Gill is one of Australia's best-known - and best-loved - musical figures. His career has taken him from teaching music in Sydney's western suburbs to Music Director of the Victorian Opera, and along the way an involvement with almost every major opera company and orchestra in Australia.What truly distinguishes Richard is his passion and enthusiasm for spreading not just the joy of music, ... Read more

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  • The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

    by Zoë Anderson ...
    This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet - as it became - was established as one of the world's great companies. It has ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings

    The Must-Have CDs and DVDs

    by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Paul Czajkowski ...
    INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEARThis completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. ... Read more

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  • I Am Melba

    A Biography

    by Ann Blainey ...
    The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.Within a few years, reborn as Nellie Melba, she was performing to overflowing concert halls, hobnobbing with ... Read more

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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 Memory of Music

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Memory of Music is a moving and evocative memoir that will appeal to music lovers everywhere.In this evocative and moving book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford shares the vivid musical experiences – good, bad and occasionally hilarious – that have shaped his life.Ford's musical journey has traversed genres and continents, and his loves are broad and deep.The Memory of Music takes us from ... Read more

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  • The Beethoven Obsession

    by Brendan Ward ...
    A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman who became a music entrepreneur in order to translate the music he loved into the first recording of ... Read more

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  • The Man with the Golden Flute

    Sir James, a Celtic Minstrel

    by Sir James Galway ...
    The internationally acclaimed, widely beloved flutist reflects on his storied careerSir James Galway is one of the top musicians of our time, with a dazzling career that has spanned five decades and many genres of music. Now he celebrates his seventieth birthday with a look back on his incredible career, during which he has traveled around the world many times over and made countless friends, ... Read more

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  • The Classic FM Concise Hall of Fame

    by Darren Henley, Tim Lihoreau ...
    The Classic FM Concise Hall of Fame celebrates classical music's unique ability to stir the emotions of a listener—whether it's the haunting melodies of Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; the passionately charged opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; dramatic operas such as Puccini's La bohème; the moving sounds of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and ... 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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