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  • Hildegard of Bingen

    The Woman of Her Age

    by Fiona Maddocks ...
    Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonishing in her own age, whose book of apocalyptic visions, Scivias, would alone have been enough to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Goodbye Russia

    Rachmaninoff in Exile

    by Fiona Maddocks ...
    The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic “Symphonic Dances.” What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Music for Life

    100 Works to Carry You Through

    by Fiona Maddocks ...
    How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cultural and musical context, discussing omissions, suggesting alternatives and always putting the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks

    by Fiona Maddocks, Sir Harrison Birtwistle ...
    'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the YearHarrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest of living composers, behind such works of trail-blazingly modern classical music as The Shadow of Night and The Mask of Orpheus, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Twentieth-Century Classical Music

    A Ladybird Expert Book

    by Fiona Maddocks ...
    Series series The Ladybird Expert Series
    Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?How did composers respond to politics and war?DISCOVER the stories behind Mahler's, Symphony No. 5 (1901-2), Ullman's Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944), Bernstein's West Side Story ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    Goodbye Russia

    Rachmaninoff in Exile

    by Fiona Maddocks ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece?Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Selected Writings

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    Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume ... Read more

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