Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great composers and performers.T
Twentieth century music has been remarkable for its pluralism. The various styles?atonality, neo-classicism, nationalism, serialism, jazz, computer music, minimalism, electronics, folklorism, ?happeni
In an unnamed country at the end of a world war, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after running only a few hundred feet. He is taken in by a young woman named Alice, and by the time
In an unnamed country at the end of a world war, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after a few hundred feet. Taken in by a young woman he learns to love, Paul decides to stay where he
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. F
Martin Simmonds' father tells him, "Never trust a musician when he speaks about love." The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose pa
vSoon to be a major motion directed by François Girard, starring Clive Owen and Tim Roth: a riveting drama about a Jewish musician searching for his childhood best friend—a Polish violin prodigy orpha
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Norman Lebrecht won the Whitbread First Novel Award for 2003 with The Song of Names. Born in London, Norman Lebrecht is Assistant Editor of the Evening Standard and pr
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. In this highly original account of the composer's life and work, Norman Lebrecht explores the Mahler Effect, as
In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative?guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the clas
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from
