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Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach’s Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, …
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 …
The Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) is among the best-known compositions by Olivier Messiaen (1908–92). Like virtually all of his works, it combines the …
The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janácek’s most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this …
The Eroica Symphony is perhaps Beethoven’s most provocative work. Its unprecedented design and its powerful emotional impact forever redefined the potential of musical expression. …
Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original music-theatre works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide is the first …
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto was the only significant work of this genre to appear between Mozart’s five concertos of 1775 and Mendelssohn’s E minor Concerto of 1844. This handbook …
The Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) is among the best-known compositions by Olivier Messiaen (1908–92). Like virtually all of his works, it combines the …
Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 82-7 are seminal works in Haydn’s output and mark a new level of compositional attainment, launching the important cycle of mature Haydn symphonies written …