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Verdi’s Messa da Requiem is one of the most frequently performed works of the choral repertoire, and one of Verdi’s most important non-operatic works. This new handbook offers an …
The piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition is perhaps the most widely known of Musorgsky’s compositions, especially as orchestrated by Ravel. This informative and wide-ranging guide …
The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of these six quartets Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in …
This guide to Schubert’s much-loved song cycle explores both the music and the poetry from a variety of perspectives. It includes biography and cultural history, literary …
Haydn’s Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. In this absorbing and original account the author places the work within the oratorio tradition, …
This guide to Mozart’s two most popular piano concertos - No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, and No. 21 in C major, K. 467 - the so-called ‘Elvira Madigan’ - presents the historical …
Mahler’s Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler’s grandiose piece of philosophical programme …
Dowland’s Lachrimae (1604) is perhaps the greatest but most enigmatic publication of instrumental music from before the eighteenth century. This new handbook, the first detailed …
Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. It has become one of his most …
Since its première Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) has been widely regarded as his finest masterpiece - 'the most Mahleresque of his works', according to his …