• The Lives and Times of the Great Composers

    A grand and panoramic biograhical history of the giants of classical music, The Lives and Times of Great Composers is a new, unique, and lovingly constructed modern reference--and a beguiling read which you will return to again and again.Interlinked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time. Read the story of Bach, the respectable burgher, much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Luteran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven, obsessed by his lau... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195222180
    • ASIN: 0195222180
    • ISBN: 0195222180
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

    A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B015754S6O
    • ASIN: B015754S6O
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick Press

  • Music of the Great Composers

    Patrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a listening program that's based on your needs and interests. Choose from a variety of approaches to pick the one that fits you best. From chorales to concertos to solo repertoire, Music of the Great Composers lets you customize your listening to broaden your understanding and love of music. You'll find: - Guidance for building a personal listening ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0310208076
    • UPC: 025986208073
    • ASIN: 0310208076
    • ISBN: 0310208076
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    "The cultural historian Anna Beer’s rewarding new book about the forgotten women of classical music includes insightful portraits of eight composers, a couple of whom are truly forgotten, like the 17th-century Italian Francesca Caccini. But penetrating essays on better-known figures, like Clara Schumann, are even more interesting for the way Ms. Beer conveys the sexism and lifelong frustrations some immensely gifted creative artists encountered.” ―Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times As Heard on NPR's Weekend Edition “Absorbing ... [Beer] writes with rich detail and sympathetic insight... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1780748566
    • ASIN: 1780748566
    • ISBN: 1780748566
    • Brand: Oneworld Publications
    • Manufacturer: Oneworld Publications

  • Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018."A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0796XDT9R
    • ASIN: B0796XDT9R
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers (Modern Traditionalist Classical Music)

    Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition―exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0810857286
    • ASIN: 0810857286
    • ISBN: 0810857286
    • Brand: Brand: Scarecrow Press
    • Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press

  • Johannes Brahms: A Biography


    • ASIN: B006NKMLAS
    • ASIN: B006NKMLAS
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)

    A revealing insight into the life and works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), whose music formed a link between the Romantic and Modern eras

    • ASIN: 0714835129
    • ASIN: 0714835129
    • ISBN: 0714835129
    • Manufacturer: Phaidon Press

  • The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

    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 classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan. Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end point–but this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. It is, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form, analyzing the cultural revolution wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini, Call... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1400096588
    • ASIN: 1400096588
    • ISBN: 9781400096589
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Mozart: A Life From Beginning to End (Composer Biographies Book 1)

    MozartFree BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifetime as a child prodigy and a musical genius. His travels throughout Europe exposed him to art, music, and education, offering plentiful opportunities for his gifts as a composer and musician to evolve and thrive. Despite his preternatural talents, the artist struggled significantly throughout his life,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B078NCBT3B
    • ASIN: B078NCBT3B

  • Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

    The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz.Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She has evolved ever since, amidst personal trag... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00IRIR7IA
    • ASIN: B00IRIR7IA
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano

    A rich and vibrant memoir that weaves chronic illness and classical music into a raw and inspiring tale of grace and determination. Andrea Avery, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that threatened not just her musical aspirations but her ability to live a normal life. As Andrea navigates the pain and frustration of coping with RA alongside the usual travails of puberty, college, sex, and just growing-up, she turns to music?specifically Franz Schubert's sonata in B-flat D960, and the one-armed pianist Paul... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1681774097
    • ASIN: 1681774097
    • ISBN: 1681774097
    • Brand: PEGASUS
    • Manufacturer: Pegasus Books

  • Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

    Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all inspired by deep spiritual convictions. Peter Kavanaugh uncovers the spirituality of twenty of music's timeless giants, revealing legacies of the soul as diverse as the masterpieces they created. Warmly written, beautifully illustrated, and complete with listening recommendations for each composer, Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers is a fascinating look at the inner flame that lit the works of these masters.

    • ASIN: 0310208068
    • UPC: 025986208066
    • ASIN: 0310208068
    • ISBN: 0310208068
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Zondervan

  • The Noise of Time: A novel

    A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his children—and all who are still alive themselv... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B015VACH40
    • ASIN: B015VACH40
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Vintage Guide to Classical Music: An Indispensable Guide for Understanding and Enjoying Classical Music

    The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features:-- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with det... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0679728058
    • ASIN: 0679728058
    • ISBN: 0679728058
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Best of the Most Relaxing Classical Music in / Various

    The Best Of Most Relaxing Classical Music In The

    • UPC: 4532730
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Best of Classical / Various (CD)

    The Best Of Classical (3CD)

    • UPC: 2028106
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Best of Classical Kids: Johann Sebastian Bach

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    • UPC: 28263292

  • For You: World's Best Loved Classical Piano Pieces (CD)

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    • UPC: 136781661

  • Best of Classical Kids: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    • UPC: 55848079

  • Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); Gary Bartz (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Christian McBride (bass instrument); Lewis Nash (drums).Recording information: Avatar, New York, New York (11/18/2003 - 11/19/2003).ILLUMINATIONS finds McCoy Tyner, some 40 years after his best-known work (as a member of John Coltrane's legendary early-1960s quartet), still kicking. Tyner's energies as a session leader, composer, and ever-progressive musician haven't flagged since the mid-'60's, when the pianist started heading his own dates. On this 2004 album, as per usual, Tyner has surrounded himself with some of the finest personnel in jazz, including bassist Christian McBride, sax player Gary Bartz, and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.Tyner's music is appealing for its balance of familiar hard-bop vocabulary and intricately wrought structures--it is rhythmic and accessible, yet intellectually engaging. Tyner plays with great vigor, mixing virtuoso classical flourishes with bold chords and dazzlingly complex solos. His compositions here touch on avant-bebop ("The Chase"), Latin groove ("Angelina"), and smooth swing (the title track--on which all the musicians get a chance to stretch out). Blanchard's playing is especially notable, substantiating the melody lines in the chorus and blazing on the solos (as on "New Orleans Stomp," driven by a classic second-line beat). The high quality of music here--in conception and execution--should come as no surprise to long-time fans of Tyner or his sidemen.

    Mccoy Tyner - Illuminations (SACD NEW)Label: TelarcFormat: SACDRelease Date: 22 Jun 2004No. of Discs: 1UPC: 089408359965Details1. Illuminations2. Angelina3. New Orleans Stomp4. Come Rain Or Come Shine5. Soulstice6. Blessings7. If I Should Lose You8. The Chase9.

    • UPC: 3465201

  • The Best Of David Phelps (CD)

    The Best Of David Phelps

    • UPC: 15862797
    • Model: 781600
    • Color: Multicolor
    • Rating: 4.375

  • 100 Best Relaxing Piano

    The collection gathers the best relaxing tunes from the piano repertoire performed by most eminent musicians: Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand Chamayou, Aldo Ciccolini, Samson François, Hélène Grimaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicolai Lugansky,

    • UPC: 404821861

  • Best of Vivaldi

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    • UPC: 34731968

  • Mozart in the Jungle : Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

    Professional oboist Tindall reveals the secret life of musicians, who trade sex and drugs for low-paying gigs and the promise of winning a rare symphony position or a lucrative solo recording contract, in this behind-the-scenes

    • UPC: 28431063
    • Rating: 1.5

  • 《BBC Great Composers》: Mozart

    Great Composers: Episode 1 Johann Sebastian Bach

    Top 10 Classical Music Composers