CLASSICAL MUSIC
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Topic: Classical
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Content Inside: PRESS RELEASE Concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers, from Hildegard of Bingen to Thomas Adès, explaining their social and musical contexts Informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, with incisive reviews of the best recordings on CD, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and the pick of the reissues. Engaging feature boxes on such topics as notation, conducting, the concerto and film music. THE ROUGH GUIDE TO CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSERS • KEY WORKS • TOP RECORDINGS For review copies, interviews and more information, contact Demelza Dallow at: Rough Guides Press Office 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL 020 7010 3701 press@roughguides.com T he new edition of The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the fourth in just over ten years – a measure of just how successfully this title has established itself as a leader in what is a highly competitive field. According to data from Nielsen BookScan, The Rough Guide is the UK’s best-selling guide to classical music on CD. Did you know? Johann Sebastian Bach spend a month in jail after “impertinently” requesting to leave the employment of the Duke of Weimar? Described by the BBC Music Magazine as the “per- fect classical music primer”, the book was conceived – in true Rough Guides fashion – to provide the non- specialist reader with a view of the subject that was informative, stimulating and occasionally conten- tious. Its unique selling point is the way it combines lively accounts of over 200 composers’ lives with dis- cussions of their key works and carefully selected CD recommendations. Did you know? The womanizing of Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella led to his assassination at the hands of a hired killer in Genoa in 1678. The Rough Guide has also been praised for its mix of well-known composers (such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart) with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contem ...
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