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Music’s Modern Muse: Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac Sylvia Kahan This eccentric and extravagant lover of the arts commissioned new works from Stravinsky, Satie, Poulenc and others, and her Parisienne Salon was a gathering place for luminaries such as Diaghilev, Boulanger, Rubinstein, and Horowitz. 
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The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958 Jan G. Swynnoe “This acute and entertaining book will be indispensable for film-music buffs and enthusiasts for British music generally.” BBC Music Magazine
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Parry to Finzi - Twenty English Song-Composers Trevor Hold Composers from the golden age of English song: Parry, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Warlock, Finzi, as well as some lesser known composers.
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Television Opera Jennifer Barnes “The author has pursued [the subject] with laudable persistence based on extensive research.” Gramophone
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Beyond the Notes: Journeys with Chamber Music Susan Tomes "A delight and a revelation...She writes with Schubertian intimacy, modesty and grace." INDEPENDENT [Boyd Tonkin] "This book reveals [Tomes'] talents as a writer, too, one with a capacity for imaginative enquiry and a gift for the telling phrase... as natural and compelling a communicator in words as she is in music." BBC Music Magazine
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Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier Edited by Christopher Fifield An acclaimed
collection of Ferrier's charming letters and diaries. |
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Gustav
Mahler: The Early Years Donald Mitchell Without understanding the territorial,
social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly
appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles
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Mahler: The Wunderhorn Years Donald Mitchell Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Mahler, concentrating on his settings of the Wunderhorn texts and the years from the First to the Fourth Symphonies.
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The autograph volumes below come as close to the composer's intentions as it is possible to do. They are an invaluable source of reference to set beside the printed score, revealing precisely what Holst wrote, and thus making clear any use of an assistant or editorial intervention. Handsome... and beautifully produced. MUSICAL TIMES |
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Gustav Holst: Collected Facsimile Edition
of Autograph Manuscripts of the Published Works Vol. I. Chamber Operas Edited by Imogen Holst
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