Libri di musica

Prima Donna. A History.

CHRISTIANSEN, RUPERT. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. 0140083782. "Prima Donna puts three hundred years of these remarkable women - from Pasta and Patti to Flagstad and Callas - into their historical and musical context. In it, the author reveals their important creative contribution to the developme...

Stars of the Opera.

BARKER, FRANK GRANVILLE. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

York: British Poetry-Drama Guild / The Lotus Press, 1949. 1st edition. A series of personal pen-portraits of: Benjiamino Gigli, Eva Turner, Lauritz Melchior, Toti Dal Monte, Luigi Infantino, Ljuba Welitsch, Paolo' Silveri, Constance Shacklock, Tito Gobbi, and The English Opera...

Twenty Famous Songs by Johannes Brahms. (High Voice).

BRAHMS, JOHANNES. · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

South Croydon: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd. Simrock's Edition. Includes: 1.To a Nightingale; 2.To a Violet; 3.The Blacksmith; 4.A Hamlet 'Neath the Willows; 5.In Summer Fields; 6.Good Night (serenade); 7.Ever Lighter Grow My Slumbers; 8.Constancy; 9.Love Song; 10.The Sandman;...

Brahms: 15 Selected Songs. Book Two. Low Voice.

BRAHMS / WHISTLER, ROBERT (TRANSLATOR). · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd. English translations by Robert Whistler. English & German words. 31cms x 23.5cms. Pp.63. Paperback, owner's name (singing coach Jean Marshall) to top of front, rubbing to price, wear to top andd tail of spine. G+.

"From Bach to Bartok". The Development of Orchestral Music from 1725-1943.

O'DEA, T / ROBERTSON, ALEC. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1955. Contents: Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. An Outline of European History from 1700 to date by T.O'Dea; A Short History of Orchestral Development by Alec Robertson; Programme Notes of 36 Orchestral Works by George Barker, Alan Gregory,...

Farewell MyYouth.

BAX, ARNOLD. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1949. New impression. Autobiography of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (1883 – 1953), the English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his...

A Soprano on Her Head.

RISTAD, ELOISE. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1993. 0911226214. Right-side-up reflections on life and other performances. "Eloise Ristad discusses the problems of nervousness and/or nervous energy with a physiological understanding of human behaviour under stress, imaginative and original ps...

Emma Albani: Victorian Diva.

MACDONALD, CHERYL. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Toronto: Dundurn Press Limited, 1984. 0919670741. "Emma (Lajeunesse) Albani, one of Canada's first internationally known performers, began as a student singing in a Chambly, Quebec convent and an Albany, New York church. From her opera debut in April 1870 in Sicily to her fare...

Radio Onederland. The Story of Radio One. (Signed).

SKUES, KEITH. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Lavenham: The Landmark Press 1968. 1st edition. Foreword by Robin Scott (Controller Radio One and Two). Written by the D.J. Keith Skues, the book is basically about the first year of Radio 1 - from September 30th, 1967 - September 30th, 1968, following its formation in reactio...

Verdi and / or Wagner. Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries.

CONRAD, PETER. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. 9780500290859. 1st paperback edition. "A scintillating absorbing read..page after page of elegantly calculated, richly allusive prose comparing, contrasting and deconstructing the lives and works of his two operatic giants" (Opera). 23.5cms x 17c...

Henry Purcell.

KING, ROBERT. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 0500016259. 1st edition. "Robert King weaves a masterly narrative, bringing together politics (always in the forefront of Purcell's fortunes), religion, society and the theatre. Relating all this to the state of music at the time - instruments,...

The Envy of the World. Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3. 1946-1996.

CARPENTER, HUMPHREY. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. 0297817205. 1st edition. "With unlimited access to BBC archives, Humphrey Carpenter throws fresh light on Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman and Michael Tippett, among others, and brings alive the individuals who have created the programmes and ...

Cathedral Organists Past and Present A Record of the Succession of Organists of the Cathedrals Chapels Royal and Principal Collegiate Churches of the United Kingdom from About the Period of the Reformation Until the Present Day...

WEST, JOHN E. · 1921 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London: Novello And Company, 1921 . 0. "A New And Enlarged Edtion". A very good original binding with hand written notes by the author and a letter to the author signed by William Henry Grattan Flood. 8vo. 8.75" x 5.75" x 0.5". pp.20/pp.176. Blue cloth with gilt titles to fron...

The Life of Brahms. (2 Volume set).

MAY, FLORENCE. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London: William Reeves, nd (c.1948). Second edition revised by the Author, with Additional Matter and Illustrations, and an Introduction by Ralph Hill. Two volumes with continuous pagination: pp.xx/699/30(publisher's catalogue), 15 illustrations, spotting to closed page edges,...

Wagner's Parsifal in English Verse.

FORMAN, ALFRED. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Printed for the Translator by Private Subscription, 1899. Printed for the Translator by Private Subscription, and Issued with the Consent of Messrs, Schott & Co. Regent Street. Pp.xvi/72//4(reviews of Alfred Forman's other Wagner translations), toning to endpapers, gif...

Fifty Shakspere Songs. For High Voices.

VINCENT, CHARLES. (EDITOR). · 1973 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

New York: AMS Press, 1973. 0404067670. Reprinted from the edition of 1906, (Boston: Oliver Ditson). Pp.xxx/157, small bookseller's label (Kitazawa Bookstore, Tokyo) to inside front board. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

Men, Women and Pianos. A Social History.

LOESSER, ARTHUR. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. 1st edition. Pp.xvi/654, spotting throughout mainly affecting preliminary pages and closed page edges. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine,edges rubbed. Good.

My Viola and I. A Complete Autobiography.

TERTIS, LIONEL. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Paul Elek, 1975. 0236310402. 2nd impression. With 'Beauty of Tone in String Playing' and other essays. "Lionel Tertis is recognised all over the world to have been perhaps the greatest viola-player of all time..His design of a large but easi;y manageable viol;a - the T...

Music To-Day. Its Heritage from the Past, amd Legacy to the Future.

FOULDS, JOHN. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, 1934. 1st edition. Contains chapters surveying music of the "present"[sic] time [1930s], looks towards a musical aesthetic, as well as modern masters at work and 'new vistas' of technical and non-technical developments. Pp.391, 51 mus...

Overture and Beginners. A Musical Autobiography.

GOOSSENS, EUGENE. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Methuen & Co.Ltd, 1951. 1st edition. "This book surveys the family's activities over a century of music-making and is written by the eldest member of the fourth generation. He describes the outstanding musical events of the period from his own and his family's personal...