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The inspiring story of The Messiah's creation takes place against a magnificent portrait of Georgian England.

Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah

Charles King

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Besides delving into Beethoven's story, Suchet relates his experience of the music to aspects of his own life as a foreign correspondent. The result is an affecting testament to a lifelong e... read more

In Search of Beethoven: A Personal Journey

John Suchet

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The author is a percussionist, composer and ethnomusicologist - so get with the beat, Baggy! Another small gem for dipping into from Wooden Books, nicely illustrated and not actually made of... read more

Rhythm: Pattern in Time

Julian Gerstin

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A magnificent, global social history of pop music, by the producer once at the forefront of world music.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music ...

Joe Boyd

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Her troubled life told through flashbacks of moments in her last year.

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last ...

Paul Alexander

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An outstanding biography of the great Polish expat, genius pianist, companion of Georges Sand. Showing deep historical knowledge and cultural understanding, as well as detailed musical comme... read more

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

Professor Alan Walker

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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life ...

Amy Key

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Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor ...

Emma Warren

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By the chief conductor of the LSO, formerly of the ROH.

My Life in Music

Sir Antonio Pappano

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Short stories and excerpts by Seth, Turgenev, Woolf, Mansfield, Nabokov, Angelou and many others. A new addition to the Everyman anthologies in stripey jackets.

Music Stories

Wesley Stace

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Featuring Brian Dillon, Wendy Erskine, Aingeala Flannery, McKenzie Wark et al...

You Spin Me Round: Essays on Music

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Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain ...

Jeffrey Boakye

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Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir

Andras Schiff

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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck ...

Michael Rose

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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri

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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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