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Music of Lennox Berkeley
Peter Dickinson
“Berkeley's character
emerges through his music, through interviews with family, colleagues
and pupils (including son Michael, Julian Bream and John Tavener) and
through correspondence... [he is] one of the most significant musical
figures of the twentieth century.”
CLASSIC FM
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The Operas of Benjamin Britten:
Expression and Evasion
Claire Seymour
Seymour examines the delicate balance between private and public
communication in Britten’s operas.
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Letters of Gerald Finzi and Howard
Ferguson
Edited by Howard Ferguson and Michael Hurd
“Engrossing reading.”
MUSIC AND LETTERS
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Parry to Finzi: Twenty English
Song Composers
Trevor Hold
“Constantly
illuminating.” John Steane,
GRAMOPHONE
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Roger Quilter: His Life and Music
Valerie Langfield
“Superb new biography...
I can't speak highly enough of Valerie Langfield's book. Her analyses of
songs is nothing less than a master-class in the art of song-writing.
The CD [includes] Quilter recordings which deserve to be far more widely
known.” Richard Osborne,
OLDIE
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William Walton: Muse of Fire
Stephen Lloyd
“Walton is a musical
giant, deserving a marvellous biography and in Stephen Lloyd’s book he
gets it…a joy to read.”
DELIUS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
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Samuel Wesley: The Man & his Music
Philip Olleson
“This totally absorbing
account, fluently narrated and minutely documented …deserves to be
widely read.” MUSICAL
TIMES
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Aldeburgh Studies in Music
A series of authoritative publications on Britten and Auden, the composer in the
Far East, Peter Pears’ travel diaries and the Making of Peter Grimes.
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Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier
Edited by Christopher Fifield
“A vivid self-portrait of a brave, secure woman in love with life and music...
Anyone interested in Kathleen Ferrier's life and art will find this welcome book
required reading.” John Talbot, BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
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Gustav Holst: Collected Facsimile Edition of Autograph Manuscripts of the
Published Works:
I. Chamber Operas: i. Savitri, Opus 25; ii. The Wandering Scholar, Opus 50
Edited by Imogen Holst
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Film
Music and Beyond
A provocative collection of writings on film music by the celebrated
critic, Hans Keller
[1919-85].
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