Tom Service (Music reviewer)

Music as Alchemy

Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

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Produktbeschreibung

How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, this title recreates great orchestral concerts as a collection of countless human and musical stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780571240487
• ISBN-10: 0571240488
• Artikelnr.: 40154655

Autorenporträt

Tom Service writes and presents The Listening Service on BBC Radio 3, and has presented Music Matters since 2003. He is a regular presenter of the BBC Proms on TV, as well as films on composers from Handel to Saariaho. His previous books about music, also published by Faber, are Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, and Full of Noises, interviews with the composer Thomas Adès. He wrote about music for The Scotsman and The Guardian for two decades, and he is a columnist for The BBC Music Magazine. He was the Gresham College Professor of Music in 2018-19, with his series, "A History of Listening".