Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-12
Price: $35.99
Review Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal; few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one his modest height he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven's music can be heard in the context of his life. What did he write in those early, ambitious years when he was at the peak of his musical powers? What did he write when beset with anxiety over his failing hearing? And what was the music that insisted on pouring out of him, even though he couldn't hear it himself? Jeremy Siepmann draws us into the private world of Ludwig van Beethoven, with the composer portrayed with such rugged vividness by Bob Peck.
Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $131.00
Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.
Creator: Tim Carter
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1994-06-24
Dewey code: 782.0092
List Price: $135.00
Price: $131.00
Review Monteverdi / Cambridge University Press:Paolo Fabbri's Monteverdi, first published in Italian, is the leading study of the greatest composer of late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy, rightly called the "father of modern music. " A large number of contemporary documents, including some 130 of his own letters, offer rich insights into the composer and his times, also illuminating the many and varied contexts for music-making in the most important musical centers in Italy. This newly revised translation brings an indispensable text to a much broader readership.
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $18.67
Review Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman / Authorhouse:
Publication date: 1993-03
Review I Must Be in There Somewhere / ISIS Publishing:An autobiography of Joss Ackland, arguably one of Britain's leading actors, covering his professional life in the theatre, television and cinema. It also looks at his early life in London and South Africa, and his personal and family life.
Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-12
Price: $35.99
Review Beethoven (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal; few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one his modest height he was a giant. The great bonus of this audio-biography is that the development of Beethoven's music can be heard in the context of his life. What did he write in those early, ambitious years when he was at the peak of his musical powers? What did he write when beset with anxiety over his failing hearing? And what was the music that insisted on pouring out of him, even though he couldn't hear it himself? Jeremy Siepmann draws us into the private world of Ludwig van Beethoven, with the composer portrayed with such rugged vividness by Bob Peck.
Publication date: 2008-10-28
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $40.00
Price: $131.13
Review John Lennon: The Life / Doubleday Canada:Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of looking afresh at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life. He has not just dug deep into the archives, including his own vast collection of tapes and notebooks dating back to the 60s, but spoken to hundreds of witnesses, from every walk of life and every stage of Lennon’s. The interviewees include Sean Lennon, whose moving reminiscences reveal his father as never before, and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about her marriage to John. In his brilliant Shout!, we were shown a band; in John Lennon, Philip Norman gives us a portrait of a man. It reconciles as never before the contradictions of this endlessly fascinating character–the volatile and violent hippie, the phenomenally wealthy advocate of no possessions, the family man and junkie–and his journey from Liverpool suburbia to becoming one of the presiding geniuses of pop culture.
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 790
Price: $18.67
Review Stand or Fall: An Autobiography of a Stuntman / Authorhouse:
Publication date: 1993-11
Dewey code: 780.266
Review The Recordings of Edvard Grieg / DGR Books:
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $147.93
Review Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club / Elgar Editions:
Publication date: 1945-10-29
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Beethoven (French Edition) / French & European Pubns:
Publication date: 1945-10-29
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $130.00
Price: $130.00
Review Beethoven (French Edition) / French & European Pubns:
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $147.93
Review Elgar's Legacy: A Centennial History of the Malvern Concert Club / Elgar Editions:
Publication date: 2008-10-28
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $40.00
Price: $131.13
Review John Lennon: The Life / Doubleday Canada:Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of looking afresh at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life. He has not just dug deep into the archives, including his own vast collection of tapes and notebooks dating back to the 60s, but spoken to hundreds of witnesses, from every walk of life and every stage of Lennon’s. The interviewees include Sean Lennon, whose moving reminiscences reveal his father as never before, and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about her marriage to John. In his brilliant Shout!, we were shown a band; in John Lennon, Philip Norman gives us a portrait of a man. It reconciles as never before the contradictions of this endlessly fascinating character–the volatile and violent hippie, the phenomenally wealthy advocate of no possessions, the family man and junkie–and his journey from Liverpool suburbia to becoming one of the presiding geniuses of pop culture.
Publication date: 1993-11
Dewey code: 780.266
Review The Recordings of Edvard Grieg / DGR Books:
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.84
Review Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) / Greenwood Press:This critical reevaluation of the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial. Separate chapters discuss the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses, his autopsy and the exhumations. Following the rediscovery of the original Latin autopsy report in 1970, the author has discovered two faulty translations, which he argues contributed to errors in earlier medical assumptions. New evidence disputes earlier assertions that Beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis. This fascinating account of Beethoven's ailments should appeal to Beethoven enthusiasts and to both the medical and music communities.
Publication date: 1993-03
Review I Must Be in There Somewhere / ISIS Publishing:An autobiography of Joss Ackland, arguably one of Britain's leading actors, covering his professional life in the theatre, television and cinema. It also looks at his early life in London and South Africa, and his personal and family life.
Publication date: 1998
Review Ziemlich Whoopi (German Edition) / Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf. GmbH & Co:
Publication date: 1998
Review Ziemlich Whoopi (German Edition) / Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf. GmbH & Co:
Publication date: 2001-05-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $131.95
Price: $131.84
Review Beethoven in Person: His Deafness, Illnesses, and Death (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) / Greenwood Press:This critical reevaluation of the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial. Separate chapters discuss the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses, his autopsy and the exhumations. Following the rediscovery of the original Latin autopsy report in 1970, the author has discovered two faulty translations, which he argues contributed to errors in earlier medical assumptions. New evidence disputes earlier assertions that Beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis. This fascinating account of Beethoven's ailments should appeal to Beethoven enthusiasts and to both the medical and music communities.
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