Refiners Fire - The Academy of Ancient Music and the Historical Performance Revolution by Richard Bratby
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Founded in 1973 by conductor Christopher Hogwood with the aim of energising baroque and classical music, the Academy of Ancient Music heralded a revolution in the way orchestral music is performed. During the 1970s and 80s the Academy surfed the digital boom in recorded music with unprecedented success ...Show more
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Stephen M. Silverman
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend--a man who stood at the pinnacle of the American musical theatre for more than sixty years. Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Wh ...Show more
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies. "Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away ...Show more
Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane ...Show more
Diva by Kate Bailey
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
From Bette Davis to Beyoncé, Maria Callas to Mariah Carey, this gorgeously illustrated book takes a look at what it means to be a divaOriginating from the Latin for deity or goddess, the term diva has evolved to become a far more complex--and loaded--term. Delving into public and private personas of per ...Show more
Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity by Kate Ceberano
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album. Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws ...Show more
Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 by Tom W Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Mozart in Motion - His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
$28.00 AUD
Category: Film
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-i ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more