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  • Quartet

    How Four Women Changed The Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse)

    by Leah Broad ...
    *WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.'Fabulous.' Sunday Times ' A rare gift.' Financial Times 'Passionate ... Vivid ... Timely.' Telegraph 'Readable and inspiring.' Guardian 'Com... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unsung

    Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War

    by Leah Broad ...
    This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before.Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine BakerGerman Nazi pianist Elly NeyBritish pianist Myra HessComposer Avril Coleridge-TaylorBallerina Tatiana VecheslovaViolinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the Auschwitz women's orchestraJazz band the International Sweethearts of RhythmPrize-winning author Leah Broad brings to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Unsung

    Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War

    by Leah Broad ...
    Narrated by tbc ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before.Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine BakerGerman Nazi pianist Elly NeyBritish pianist Myra HessComposer Avril Coleridge-TaylorBallerina Tatiana VecheslovaViolinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the Auschwitz women's orchestraJazz band the International Sweethearts of RhythmPrize-winning author Leah Broad brings to ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • Audiobook

    Quartet

    How Four Women Changed The Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse)

    by Leah Broad ...
    Narrated by Leah Broad ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 46 min

    *WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.'Magnificent.' Kate Mosse 'Riveting.' Antonia Fraser 'A breath of fresh air.' Kate Molleson 'Fascinating.' Alexandra Harris 'Wonderful.' Claire Tomalin 'Splendid.'</stro... ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Benjamin Britten

    A Life in the Twentieth Century

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    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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    In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts ... Read more

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  • Companion to Irish Traditional Music

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  • Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

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    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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