Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300145004
Boris Berman draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev's work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer's nine piano sonatas.
Author : Thomas Schmidt-Beste
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521762545
An introductory survey of the most enduring and popular genre of instrumental music, perfect for students, teachers and performers.
Author : Bruno Monsaingeon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691095493
"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover
Author : Oscar Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 2506 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Lennox Berkeley
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843837854
"A substantial introduction from Dickinson, who first met Berkeley in 1956, is followed by Berkeley's reports on musical life in Paris (1929-34) and a selection of his letters to his celebrated teacher Nadia Boulsnger (in translation). Almost all of Berkely's later writings follow, and then there are four interviews he gave in the 1970s. After Berkeley's death, Dickinson interviewed performers, composers, family and friends for a BBC Radio 3 documentary, and the complete recorded discussions are transcribed"--Publisher's description.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1991-11-11
Category :
ISBN :
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300253931
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work--a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yudina was no ordinary musician. An incredibly popular pianist, she lived on the fringes of Soviet society and had close friendships with such towering figures as Boris Pasternak, Pavel Florensky, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Legend has it that she was Stalin's favorite pianist. Yudina was at the height of her fame during WWII, broadcasting almost daily on the radio, playing concerts for the wounded and troops in hospitals and on submarines, and performing for the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad. By the last years of her life, she had been dismissed for ideological reasons from the three institutions where she taught. And yet, according to Shostakovich, Yudina remained "a special case. . . . The ocean was only knee-deep for her." In this engaging biography, Elizabeth Wilson sets Yudina's extraordinary life within the context of her times, where her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and religious ferment of the postrevolutionary period and the ensuing years of Soviet repression.
Author : Suburban Audio Visual Service (La Grange, Ill.)
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release :
Category : Sound recordings
ISBN :
Author : Abram Loft
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780931340369
This wonderful book is written for musicians seeking to build or extend a sonata repertoire. Analyses are given of both well-known and many lesser-known pieces of music, with recommendations on performance as well as descriptions of difficulties. Many are suitable for student or amateur musicians. This is mainly a book for violinists, though; many of the keyboard parts of these pieces are little more than continuo accompaniment. The second volume, detailing the music of Beethoven onward, contains descriptions of music that puts the keyboardist on more equal footing with the violinist.
Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208076
A unique guide to enhance and enrich your enjoyment of classical music, this book is for music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters.
