Music

Miles Davis

Life&Times
by Brian Morton

Miles Davis was one of the great jazz musicians, bandleaders and composers.

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Verdi


by Barbara Meier

Guiseppe Verdi, the popular genius behind Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida, continues to enthral audiences with his daring music and stories of love and death.His life was as dramatic and as passionate as his music. Verdi was always fighting: for Italy’s liberty and nationhood and for his own artistic freedom against censors, opera impressarios and the authorities.

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Dvorak


by Kurt Honolka

Kurt Honolka weaves the story of Dvorak’s life into the rich tapestry of the political and social tensions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the twilight of its power. Honolka sets the scene for Dvoraks's 'American' music and his return from the United States, providing a facinating context for his most famous work, the Ninth Symphonie From the New World.

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Brahms


by Hans A. Neunzig

Johannes Brahms was one of the seminal musical figures of the 19th century. He shot to fame as a dashing young performer and composer, ‘the one who had to come’ according to Robert Schumann. Then he consciously ‘switched’ this romantic image for that of heir to Bach and Beethoven.

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We All Want to Change the World

The Life of John Lennon
by John Wyse Jackson

John Lennon (1940-80) was the founder of the most successful pop/rock group of all times, the Beatles. John Wyse Jackson's biography touches for the first time on Lennon's Irish roots and how his background influenced his music, philosophy and attitude to life and politics and thereby travels to the heart of the 'little child inside the man'.

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Price: £14.40