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I Don’t Take Requests

Tony Marnoch

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The role of surrealism and the cultural milieu of Paris in the 1940s helped inspire Boulez's emotional and radical music. CP's last book - on Eric Satie - was excellent.

Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium

Caroline Potter

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Perspicacious readings of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's Fidelio, Berlioz's Les Troyens, and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.

Said on Opera

Edward Said

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From Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn to Nina Simone.

Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives

Susan Tomes

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Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer Of Bayreuth

Barry Millington

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Charts the legend's mature years, from his 1966 motorcycle accident to now.

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021

Clinton Heylin

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The novelist turns his pen to the experience of listening: how music affects us psychologically and socially - how do we listen, and why?

Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

Michel Faber

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Mozart was taken to Italy three times by his father in his early and mid-teens; already astonishingly accomplished as a thirteen-year-old, he drank in Italian opera like a thirsty man findin... read more

Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera ...

Jane Glover

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The upheavals of 1930s' Germany created a cultural diaspora as composers and musicians fled abroad: Kurt Weill, Korngold and many lesser-known artists too.

Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler ...

Michael Haas

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The latest in Yale's Musical Instrument series winds from ancient animal horns to the lurs of Bronze Age Denmark - and thence eventually to its modern brassy descendants.

The Horn

Renato Meucci

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A multi-faceted portrait of the most overlooked of the Fab Four.

George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

Philip Norman

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A Pulitzer Prize-winner's essays on musical greats who flourished again later in life: Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith and many more. These are judicious and vivid portraits, som... read more

Holding the Note: Writing On Music

David Remnick

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Lifts the curtain on the maestro of later C20th American musical theatre. Some illustrations.

Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy

Stephen M. Silverman

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Glitzy memoir from the only act in history to have a No.1 album in six consecutive decades.

My Name is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

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From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Outer Hebrides: she and her partner travelled – slowly – by horse and wagon. She gave up music, disillusioned with the pop ... read more

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Vashti Bunyan

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The women who got - and kept - the Stones rolling.

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita ...

Elizabeth Winder

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The first biography of one of the great codebreakers: she played a key role in both world wars, and also deciphered the letters of both Beethoven and Mozart.

Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Gre ...

Jackie Ui Chionna

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He left Russia in 1917, taking his compositions and melancholy genius to America and Switzerland, where he reinvented himself as a virtuoso pianist.

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile

Fiona Maddocks

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During lockdown, the great tenor turned his attention to some of the stories and ideas behind the song cycles that he was unable to perform.

Song & Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performanc ...

Ian Bostridge

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In the excellent Yale series, a lively introduction to music around the world from Neanderthal trumpeting to the present.

A Little History of Music

Robert Philip

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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance ...

Hanif Abdurraqib

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A lively account of a long and rich life from Broadway royalty.

Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers ...

Mary Rodgers

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A group biography of four magnificent and prodigiously talented women composers who, though famous in their lifetimes for their works, are now ghosts in the canon. All were born between 1858... read more

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

Leah Broad

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Fascinating portrait of what it takes to be a conductor, by a very successful one.

In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor

Alice Farnham

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Shinichi Suzuki was a violinist who became more famous as an educator and philosopher; his ideas of language acquisition revolutionised musical training. He also did much to erode occidental... read more

Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World ...

Eri Hotta

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An entertaining and affecting memoir of the great pianist's youth and early training, which began in a suburb of post-war Liverpool. Told with candour and simplicity.

Enough: Scenes from Childhood

Stephen Hough

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Uses Beethoven's music to tell the story of his life; a zestful account, told in short chapters though a hundred pieces of music and recommended recordings.

Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces

Norman Lebrecht

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A biography of the American lyricist, librettist and theatrical producer.

Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical ...

Laurie Winer

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365 photographs taken by a great musician and writer: fragments of daily life, be it a book, a view, her boots, her travels...

A Book of Days

Patti Smith

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An exhilarating romp through some epic first performances: the Sex Pistols, kabuki theatre, Renaissance Florence, Paris with the Ballets Russes, etc.

Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World

Dominic Dromgoole

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Stoppard's libretto for André Previn's Penelope - a monodrama by Odysseus's wife - first performed in 2019 by Renée Fleming, Uma Thurman and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Penelope

Tom Stoppard

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The first violinist of the Takacs Quartet ruminates on the work of Bartók, Britten, Dvořák and Elgar in relation to ideas of home, exile, nostalgia and place, the hope and even dread of r... read more

Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home

Edward Dusinberre

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In 1815 both composers were setting poems to music in what became known as their 'late style'.

From the Ruins of Enlightenment: Beethoven and Schubert in Their Solit ...

Richard Kramer

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A short biography of Thomas Linley, the Georgian prodigy who was celebrated - with Mozart - by Burney as "the most promising geniusses of the age". But he died very young.

Tommasino: The Enigma of the English Mozart

Tony Scotland

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From C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Romantic Sturm und Drang to Chopin, Berlioz and Wagner. Walsh's recent book on Debussy was excellent.

The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age

Stephen Walsh

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The autobiography of the lead singer of U2.

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Bono

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