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Genius and Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht
Category: History
This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic history...especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past" (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a ha ...Show more
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Music
A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world--and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collect ...Show more
Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Fiction
For the vast majority of its fans around the world, the experience of listening to classical music has been through recording. Indeed, one of the striking aspects of the past century has been the overwhelming popularization of a form of music previously restricted to particular places and people of weal ...Show more
Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness : The secret life and shameful death of the classical record industry by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Music
Inflated egos, corporate insanity, slave labour, sexual excess, dazzling genius. Welcome to the world of classical recording. "Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness" is a sparkling expose of the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. Leading music critic Norman Le ...Show more
Mahler Remembered by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Film
Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the man and musician through the words of his contemporaries. Using many previously unpublished documents, he constructs a profile of Mahler even more complex and compelling than ...Show more
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Fiction
Martin is growing up as an only child in wartime London until Dovidl, a refugee violinist from Warsaw, comes to stay. His arrival brings merriment and love, mischief and menace. Blood-brothers, they roam the ruined city, finding tragedy and triumph, sex and crime, until Dovidl disappears.
The Song of Names (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Fiction
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Film
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed Sheeran. Norman Lebrecht asks- why? Who was this titan of world culture? In 100 recordings, freely available on Idagio and YouTube, Lebrecht brings to life t ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings, Lebrecht brings to life the composer as we've never seen him ...Show more
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht
Category: Film
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to thos ...Show more