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Genius and Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht
22.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic history...especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past" (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a ha ...Show more
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
39.99 AUD
Category: History
A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world--and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known--Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collect ...Show more
The Song of Names (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Norman Lebrecht
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
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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
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
44.99 AUD
Category: Music
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed Sheeran. Norman Lebrecht asks- why? Who was this titan of world culture? In 100 recordings, freely available on Idagio and YouTube, Lebrecht brings to life t ...Show more
Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht
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Category: Music
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to thos ...Show more
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World by Norman Lebrecht
23.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal emotional wounds, others find intellectual fascination i ...Show more
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