The BBC Proms Pocket Guide to Great Concertos (BBC Proms Pocket Guides)

KENYON, Nicholas (ed)

ISBN 10: 0571216897 / ISBN 13: 9780571216895

Editore: Faber and Faber, 2003

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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Codice articolo CHL1485081

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Titolo: The BBC Proms Pocket Guide to Great ...

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber

Data di pubblicazione: 2003

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Used; Very Good

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Riassunto:

Classical music is more available to all than ever. On the radio, the Internet, on CDs, on television and at concerts - the great masterpieces of music can be heard in countless different performances. But where can you find out more about the music you hear? The "BBC Proms Pocket Guides" provide all the background and information you need about some of the most popular works in the repertory. As one of the world's leading music festivals, the BBC Proms has over the years published unrivalled and highly-praised programme notes by some of today's leading writers on music. Now some of the best roles on some of the greatest pieces of music are being published in pocket guide form so that you can refer to them wherever you listen. This volume surveys some of the best-loved concertos written across the centuries, from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", through to the contemporary masterpieces of Walton and Lutoslawski.

L'autore:

Nicholas Kenyon has been Managing Director of the Barbican Centre since 2007. He was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007, and Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998. He read History at Balliol College, Oxford, and his first post was with the English Bach Festival 1973-6. He was a music critic for The New Yorker, The Times, and the Observer, and has written the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the biography of Simon Rattle, edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music, and co-edited The Proms: A New History. He is a member of the boards of English National Opera and Sage Gateshead, a Trustee of Dartington Hall and a member of Arts Council England.