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  • Beyond the Notes

    Journeys with Chamber Music

    de Susan Tomes ...
    We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENTShe is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a writer as she is one of our finest chamber musicians...This is a book that should be read by practising musicians and music-lovers alike: here's one performer who really can communicate in words as well as ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Piano

    A History in 100 Pieces

    de Susan Tomes ...
    A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK’s most renowned concert pianistsAn astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre—from ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Nocturnes

    and the Fascination of Night Music

    de Susan Tomes ...
    An engrossing history of the music of twilight and sleep, from the nocturnes of Field and Chopin to Max RichterIn an insomniac age, ambient and sleep music have become increasingly popular. But our association between music and sleep is not new: lullabies may be the oldest form of music, and are instantly recognisable across peoples and cultures. Why does the night hold such musical fascination ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Out of Silence

    A Pianist's Yearbook

    de Susan Tomes ...
    Out of Silence is a diary of a year in Susan Tomes's life as a performer. Taking as its inspiration Schumann's remark that 'I am affected by everything that goes on in the world, and I think it all over in my own way', it aims to show how a working musician mulls over and draws energy from the events of everyday life.We follow this internationally renowned pianist as she prepares for concerts and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Speaking the Piano

    Reflections on Learning and Teaching

    de Susan Tomes ...
    In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Musician's Alphabet

    de Susan Tomes ...
    Have you ever wondered whether musicians notice the audience or are influenced by them? Wanted to know how performers might learn particularly difficult pieces? Thought about the terms 'old' and 'young' in reference to music?Using the letters of the alphabet as her starting point, Susan Tomes presents a series of lively reflections on performing music, and on the classical music world. Drawing on ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Sleeping in Temples

    de Susan Tomes ...
    In several decades as a distinguished classical pianist, Susan Tomes has found that there are some issues which never go away. Here she takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what "interpretation" really means, what effect daily practice has on the character, whether playing from memory is a burden or a liberation, and why the piano is the right ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Gareth Malone’s Guide to Classical Music

    The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music

    de Gareth Malone ...
    Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal eBook, previously published as ‘Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music’, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure.Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Music as Alchemy

    Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

    de Tom Service ...
    How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Pianist's A–Z

    A piano lover's reader

    de Alfred Brendel ...
    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.'Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Illegal Harmonies

    Music in the Modern Age

    de Andrew Ford ...
    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”.In response to the noisiest ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Play It Again

    An Amateur Against the Impossible

    de Alan Rusbridger ...
    The Guardian editor and amateur pianist's account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for news.As editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger lives by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitational pull of music—especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: within a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD