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Originally posted by muzzer View PostI think you might struggle to find one single tome for that......"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by muzzer View PostThough I'd recommend The Austrian Mind by William Johnston and Fin de Siecle Vienna by Carl Schorske if you've not read them."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Also good for Vienna pre WW1:
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
Edward Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Eduard Hanslick, Vienna's Golden Years of Music 1850-1900
Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna, 1898-1918
Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
George Clare, Last Waltz in Vienna
The first and last most essential IMO.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostI started into Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, the first of her four-part "Neapolitan Series", and I've found it completely captivating. I'm a few pages from the end and feeling highly relieved that there are another three books to go. I'm not sure it's going to be enough.
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Originally posted by verismissimo View PostAlso good for Vienna pre WW1:
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday
Edward Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Eduard Hanslick, Vienna's Golden Years of Music 1850-1900
Peter Vergo, Art in Vienna, 1898-1918
Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
George Clare, Last Waltz in Vienna
The first and last most essential IMO."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI've been reading a boom called. 'Absolutely on music', a book of conversationS between the novelist Murakami and the conductor Seiji Ozawa. There are few nuggets but, IMHO, it's a lot of pretentious twaddle.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI've been reading a boom called. 'Absolutely on music', a book of conversationS between the novelist Murakami and the conductor Seiji Ozawa. There are few nuggets but, IMHO, it's a lot of pretentious twaddle.
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I was delighted to find in my local library a new translation of a comic novel by Andrea Camilleri: The Brewer of Preston.
People who enjoy his Montalbano stories will also be amused by this one, I think, though it is more farcical. The title refers to an opera due to be performed in his Sicilian town.
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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine.
One of the best books I have read this decade.
A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of a single woman's reclusive life in the Middle East."
For once, I'm inclined to agree.
Here's a link to the books mentioned in the book:
64 books based on 5 votes: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Midn...
If you have enjoyed any of those, then it is possible you may enjoy this book too.
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Euphoric to receive my copy of Nicholas Hytner's, Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the NT, this afternoon. He tells the inside story of twelve years at the helm and candidly covers its failures as well as many of its spectacular successes. Should be a good companion to the Peter Hall Diaries, 1983, and its turbulent years in the seventies, followed by Richard Eyre's, National Service, 2003; both a constant reference source for me. Pleasing to know that it has been selected as Book of the Week with extracts on R4, from Monday-Friday, next week.
Alan Bennett: 'Riveting..."Nothing makes me happier," Hytner writes, "than to throw a party and choose to sit on the edge of it." It was a party, often a triumphant one, but he was at the heart of it. As was someone else: Shakespeare, about whom he writes superbly. Speaking for myself, I've never had so much fun as working with Nicholas Hytner. This book explains why'
Retail price, £20, but I got a discounted offer of £17 + from the river people...Exit, pursued by a bear...
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