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20th Century Classical Music: A Ladybird Expert Book by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Music | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Twentieth-Century Classical Music is an accessible, authoritative, and entertaining introduction to the Western classical music that captured the defining moments of the contemporary world. Written by The Observer's classical music critic Fiona Maddocks, Twentieth ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Film
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Hildegard of Bingen - Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Biography
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonish ...Show more
Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Film
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cult ...Show more
Music for Life - 100 Works to Carry You Through by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Film
Fiona Maddocks's descriptions are dangerously moreish... a timely reminder of the importance of music." - BBC Music How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort, or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine cent ...Show more
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