Music:

On Music and Musicians

Written by Robert Schumann
Edited by Konrad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $12.99

Edited by Konraad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations

Schumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones.  From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature of the 19th century.  The same fire, poetry, directness of... Read more >

Franz Liszt, Volume 2
The Weimar Years: 1848-1861
Written by Alan Walker

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $22.99

The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.

"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books

"A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr... Read more >

The Essential Classical Recordings
100 CDs for Today's Listener
Written by Rick Phillips

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $12.99

Most guides to classical recordings on CD comprise thousands of brief listings. In their attempt to be comprehensive, they end up being heavy and intimidating. Phillips knows better. He sticks to what he considers to be the 101 essential CDs, and tells readers not only why each one is the best... Read more >

The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95

A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year

A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which... Read more >

The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $13.99

A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year

A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which... Read more >

Johannes Brahms
A Biography
Written by Jan Swafford

Format: eBook, 752 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $15.99

An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted to erase traces of himself... Read more >

The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00

The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and...

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My Nine Lives
A Musical Memoir
Written by Leon Fleisher and Anne Midgette

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00

My Nine Lives is a powerful and stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of courage, compassion, and triumph over outstanding odds.
 
At the peak of his career, celebrated pianist Leon Fleisher suddenly lost the use of two fingers on his right hand. Miraculously, at... Read more >

Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Written by Norman Lebrecht

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00

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 those who knew him, Lebrecht...

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The Joy of Classical Music
A Guide for You and Your Family
Written by Joan Kennedy

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $2.99

Who’s Afraid of Classical Music?
 
For years Joan Kennedy, at home, on the campaign trail, and in concert, has shared her love of classical music with adults and children. Now she uses her experience as a teacher and musician to show how you and your family can make music an enriching part... Read more >

Ticket to the Opera
Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Rec
Written by Phil G. Goulding

Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2011
Price: $15.99

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions... Read more >

Classical Music
The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works
Written by Phil G. Goulding

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $13.99

MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe... Read more >

Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Written by Norman Lebrecht

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.99

Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American conductor. Yet today, almost one hundred years later, Mahler has displaced Beethoven...

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The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $26.00

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
 
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and... Read more >

The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $11.99

The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and... Read more >

The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs
Read by Patrick Egan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $20.00

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
 
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and... Read more >

Stravinsky
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
Written by Stephen Walsh

Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $19.99

This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh’s magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate, all too aware of... Read more >

Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.99

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.

Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >

Parallels and Paradoxes
Explorations in Music and Society
Written by Edward W. Said and Daniel Barenboim

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.99

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and... Read more >

Mozart's Sister
A Novel
Written by Rita Charbonnier

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $19.00

The fascinating life of Wolfgang’s older sister, Nannerl—whose talent may have equaled her brother’s

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was a child. At the tender age of five, she gave her first public performance... Read more >

Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $11.99

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Read by Feodor Chin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $17.50

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

The Life and Death of Classical Music
Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made
Written by Norman Lebrecht

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.00

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.

Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording... Read more >

Keyboard Conversations®: Mozart and Friends

Written by Jeffrey Siegel
Read by Jeffrey Siegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 20, 2006
Price: $7.49

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.

For information about the other titles in this series please visit www.randomhouse.com/audio.


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