The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony. 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience. The world premiere in Munich in the summer ...Show more
Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of the Smiths 1982-87 by Simon Goddard
$20.00 AUD
Category: Music
'Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Smiths 1982 -87' reveals the stories behind every track (including unreleased out-takes), catalogues all the group's UK television, radio and concert appearances and features interviews with original band members, producers and associates.
Toscanini - Musician of Conscience by Harvey Sachs
$40.95 AUD
Category: Music
Harvey Sachs's "monumental" (Alex Ross) biography recounts the sixty-eight-year career of conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), an artist celebrated for his fierce dedication, photographic memory, explosive temper, impassioned performances, and uncompromising work ethic. Toscanini collaborated with Ve ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have never been more popular, nor so violently controversial and divisive. As a man, he was a walking contradiction: aggres ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
$43.95 AUD
Category: Music
The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written ...Show more
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck
$57.95 AUD
Category: Music
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, and Tristan a ...Show more
Radio Birdman: Retaliate first by Murray Engleheart
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
The first-ever in-depth biography of iconoclastic Sydney punk band Radio Birdman. Sydney's legendary Radio Birdman were a stake through the satin and scarfed hearts of the early seventies' music scene, revolutionising the conservative Australian industry in the process. Regarded as one of the earliest p ...Show more
Bartschland - Tales of New York City Nightlife by Susanne Bartsch; RuPaul (Foreword by)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Susanne Bartsch Presents: Bartschland is a decades-deep dive into the intoxicating world of queer NYC nightlife through the celebrated entertainer and fashion icon. "For so many of us who came to New York to follow our Warhol dreams and fulfill the promise of a David Bowie future, Susanne became The Wiz ...Show more
Callas 100 by Giampaolo Guida Guid
$105.00 AUD
Category: Music
*Maria Callas told through the words of colleagues, beloved, close collaborators and unpublished images *Features stunning black and white photography and previously unseen documents The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman. Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of t ...Show more
In Good Hands - The Making of a Modern Conductor by Alice Farnham
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
'Alice Farnham's insightful book is an inspirational tool, even for those of different disciplines.' CATE BLANCHETT
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
$23.00 AUD
Category: Music
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings, Lebrecht brings to life the composer as we've never seen him ...Show more