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Recordings of the Year 2006
New
LYRITA releases for January 2007
Two
new complete books on-line
Cannons
and Flowers - the memoirs of Georges Cziffra
The
Music goes Round and Around by Basil Tschaikov
Giuseppe
VERDI
(1813-1901) A conspectus of his life and a
review of the audio and video recordings of
his works by Robert Farr. PART
3: Verdi’s middle period: The
eight operas from Stiffelio (1850)
to Un ballo in Maschera (1859)
SIR
MALCOLM ARNOLD (1921–2006) - First Hon.
Vice-President of the UK Sibelius Society
- Edward Clarke
MusicWeb
Reviewer’s Log: December 2006 Reviewer:
Patrick C Waller
A New
Kind of Record Collection by
Kevin Sutton
Zoran
Todorovich talks to Göran
Forsling at the Staatsoper unter den Linden
The
Flight of Jackie O - Creativity in Baroque
Roles and Ornamentation : An
interview with Vivica Genaux by Michael Ellison
There
is no ‘passaggio’:
Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo talks
to Bill Kenny about musical training, singing
and his personal philosophy
Klaus
Heymann auf Naxos by
Randolph Magri-Overend
How
music works - an introduction to his new
TV series by
Howard Goodall
Amelia
Farrugia – Driving Talent by
Randolph Magri-Overend
Rohan
de Saram on Berio and new musical horizons
by
Anne Ozorio
Maggie
Cotton,
former percussionist with the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, give the
inside picture of what it is like working
in an International Symphony Orchestra More
details and ordering [now with specimen
page] £9.99 plus postage: £10.50
UK, £11.50 World-wide.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough,
it should be required reading for EVERY music
student aspiring to become an orchestral musician;
even if, hoping to remain above the common
herd, so to speak, they only want to become
a conductor! Not just music students though:
concert-goers, music-lovers everywhere, this
is THE book for you! - Arthur Butterworth
Reviews
by Rob
Barnett, Paul
Serotsky and Arthur
Butterworth
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The
Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs
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Reviews
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Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart: a Biography
[Originally published as
WAM: La Vita e il Tempo de Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2003]
by Piero Melograni. Translated into English
by Lydia G. Cochrane [PSh]
The
best biography of Mozart — and one of the
best biographies of anyone — I’ve ever read
... see Full
Review
Wrong
Sex, Wrong Instrument by Maggie
Cotton Foreword: Christopher Morley Pages:
364 paperback ISBN: 1-904444-71-7; 978-1-904444-71-8
Apex Publishing Limited, PO Box 7068, Clacton-on-Sea
CO15 5WN £9.99 [ABu]
A
more appropriate title could not be imagined
for this splendid, heartening and truly stunning
book about orchestral life seen and heard
from the inside. ... see Full
Review
LIONEL TERTIS -
The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola
by John White
[ABu]
This
is an excellent book and deserves the attention
of all who have a lively interest in the annals
of British music. ... see Full
Review
The
Music of Franz Schmidt Volume
1: The Orchestral Music by Harold Truscott
[PCW]
Essential
reading for those in the English-speaking
world interested in a composer not yet fully
recognised by it … see Full
Review
Roz
SOUTHEY (b.1952)
Music-Making in North-East England during
the Eighteenth Century Published
2006 Ashgate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5097-3
259 pages £55.00 [RH]
Adds
enormously to our picture of music-making;
more importantly it examines what was happening
in ordinary places away from the glare of
celebrity ... see Full
Review
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