CLASSICAL MUSIC
CLASSICAL MUSIC PAPERBACKS
Fryderyk Chopin A Life and Times Alan Walker Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved and legendary artists. ‘At last, the definitive biography of Chopin has arrived . . . A masterpiece, indispensable to specialists and general music lovers alike.’ Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year ‘A stunning achievement.’ Stuart Isacoff, Literary Review ‘A magisterial portrait of a composer who fascinated and puzzled contemporaries and whose music came to define the Romantic piano.’ Corinna de Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times 02/01/20 PB | 978 0 571 34856 5 | 768pp | £20.00 UK C/Wealth EXcan OpenEU
MARK MORRIS was born in 1956 in Seattle, USA. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) in 1980 and has since created close to 150 works for the company. From 1988 to 1991, he was director of dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. In 1990, he founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov. WESLEY STACE has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune.
Out Loud Mark Morris and Wesley Stace From the most brilliant and audacious choreographer of our time, the exuberant tale of a young dancer’s rise to the pinnacle of the performing arts world. Mark Morris grew up in Seattle. A gifted dancer from an early age, he moved to New York at nineteen, arriving to one of the great booms of dance in America, which included legendary choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Twyla Tharp. Morris founded a group of like-minded artists who danced, travelled and slept together and became the famed Mark Morris Dance Group. Celebrated by the New Yorker’s critic as one of the great young talents, with androgynous beauty, he and his company made a fast ascent. With unusual candour and disarming wit, Morris’s memoir captures the life of a performer who broke the mould, a brilliant misfit who found his home in the collective and liberating world of music and dance.
21/11/19 HB | 978 0 571 35666 9 | 384pp | £20.00 Ebook | 978 0 571 35668 3
Robert Schumann’s Advice to Young Musicians Steven Isserlis Robert Schumann was forward-thinking in his attitude to young people, writing Advice to Young Musicians in 1848. In this volume, celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis has taken Schumann’s words of wisdom and set them in a modern context with his own extensive commentary. By turns practical, humorous and profound, this book is a must for aspiring musicians and music-lovers of all ages. ‘No musician or music lover should be without it.’ BBC Music Magazine ‘How much musical wisdom can be packed into one slim volume? . . . Humorous [and] down-to-earth.’ Financial Times Books of the Year ‘Isserlis [offers] explanation and commentary that let Schumann talk directly to us, in an open and somehow contemporary manner. The advice is all superb.’ Times Literary Supplement
PB | 978 0 571 35568 6 | 112pp | £9.99 World ex USA
‘The absorbing story of an uncompromising genius of the dance, as revelatory and intense as his extraordinary choreography.’ Salman Rushdie
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