Classical Opera category: 1804 books

La musica classica è di tutti. Per troppo tempo l’abbiamo considerata noiosa, adatta a vecchi ricchi intellettuali, lontana dal suono dei tempi; l’abbiamo legata al flauto dolce a cui ci costringevano a scuola; alle occhiatacce per un applauso sbagliato a teatro; a simboli incomprensibili annotati...

Quindici opere, venti interviste: venti conversazioni con alcuni dei più grandi interpreti dell’Opera contemporanea – direttori d’orchestra, registi, cantanti – che si sono confrontati con il Maestro di Busseto. Leonetta Bentivoglio, critico teatrale e musicale di «Repubblica», ha chiesto...

Dies ist das Libretto zur Oper Polly: An Opera. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Bildschirm. Einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, Sprachen lassen sich über das Inhaltsverzeichnis auswählen.

How long did it take Rossini to compose The Barber of Seville? Which composer named five of his children Johann? Why was Elgar depicted on the back of a £20 note? Find out all this and more in this edition of Classic FM’s Classic Ephemera, an irresistible compilation of facts, figures, and trivia...

Classical musicians are just musicians. Buttoned up and tuxedo clad on stage, behind the scenes, their lives can be as insane as rock stars'. I HATE PRACTICE - A RHAPSODY ON REHEARSALS, RELATIONSHIPS AND RACHMANINOV BY A CLASSICAL PIANIST was originally intended to a one man show. Except when I told...

The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French hornist hired by a major symphony in these United States. Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between,...

Francesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.Great composers all, but their musical legacy is still rarely acknowledged.Since the birth of classical music, those women who dared to compose have...

Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound piano arrangements include themes from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata and Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, along with such favorites as Schumann's Träumerei, Brahms's Lullaby, Chopin's Prelude, Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Moussorgsky's Promenade (from Pictures at an Exhibition), and many more. Includes 20 piano arrangements.

A German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Celebrated as the creator of the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’, ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’, the ‘Mass in B Minor’...

Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Helen Epstein (12,200 words) Dorothy DeLay (1917-2002) was the first woman to become an internationally-acclaimed master teacher of the violin. Her thousands of students (at the Juilliard School in New York, the Aspen Music Festival,...

George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra’s towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell’s powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image.Marcia Hansen Kraus’s participation in Cleveland’s...

**'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs ** Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in 2003. A lifetime's work and almost 1000 pages long, it has since become 'the' reference point and key read...

Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is...

The book provides truly rare knowledge of the emergence of natural musical notes (swaras) from the eternal impulse of Nāda and consequent emanation of the Shastric (Indian Classical) Music. This Indian classical music was developed and propagated by the Vedic sages. They had recognized the linkage...