The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex ...Show more
Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness : The secret life and shameful death of the classical record industry by Norman Lebrecht
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music
Inflated egos, corporate insanity, slave labour, sexual excess, dazzling genius. Welcome to the world of classical recording. "Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness" is a sparkling expose of the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. Leading music critic Norman Le ...Show more
Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
When Donna Leon, the acclaimed author of the best-selling "Commissario Guido Brunetti series", is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, she is listening to opera. Over the years, Leon has noticed that her favourite composer, George Frideric Handel, filled his operas with arias that m ...Show more