The Fallen Nightingale10 reviews John W. Milton Beaver's Pond Press, 2004 The amazing book and music + Enchanted + A Marvelous Read: John Milton's "The Fallen Nightingale" + "A Treasure"             Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer20 reviews Tad Szulc Da Capo Press, 1999 Chopin in Paris is for the Literate + Flawed but STILL Fascinating The most fantastic level of detail, insight and analysis on Chopin! However, the depth and sophistication rendered by Tad Szulc is done so in a manner that the typical English reader (with a poor command of the language) will find difficult. If you are a literate reader this is the ultimate book ...             Mozart: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)21 reviews Peter Gay Viking Adult, 1999 Mozart's Life: Lite yet Substantial + Bravo Peter Gay + A good short life -but does not explain the miracle and mystery Peter Gay's `Mozart' is the sort of book a heavy-hitting historian like Gay writes while on holiday at the beach. Lite, witty and short, but still substantial enough to satisfy. (The same could be said for many of the excellent volumes of the Penguin Lives series--alas, now defunct.) As nearly ...             A Singer's Guide to the Songs of Joaqu'n Rodrigo Suzanne Rhodes Draayer, Joaquin Rodrigo Scarecrow Pr, 1999 An authoritative and indispensable guide to Joaqu'n Rodrigo's vast catalog of vocal works, "A Singer's Guide" provides word-for-word translations, idiomatic translations, and IPA transcriptions of Rodrigo's entire body of work, which encompasses eighty-seven songs. Other details given are background information, range, length and other relevant facts. Biographies of Rodrigo and his wife, Victoria ...             Puccini: A Biography3 reviews Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Northeastern, 2002 Puccini: a restless visionist and revisionist + Solid biography Having sung in "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly", my interest was piqued when I first heard about Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's wonderful new biography about Giacomo Puccini. Using his operas as chapter divisions, the author gives a firm basis on which to look at Puccini's life as he struggled with his ...             Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic2 reviews Walter Aaron Clark Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 fascinating and insightful + Transcendent music Aaron Clark is admirably unwilling to speculate as so many much earlier biographies of Albeniz have been about the more hazy periods in his life. He is particularly good on understanding the hyperbole and publicity-friendly porkies Albeniz was given to in the context of his character. Where he ...             Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano1 review Walter Aaron Clark Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Walter Clark Does It Again! For devotees of Spanish music, Walter Clark's biography on Isaac Albeniz was a hard act to follow, but he's done it again with this biography of Albeniz' contemporary, Enrique Granados. Clark brings both Granados and his music back to life in a brilliant work that sets new standards for musical ...             New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life2 reviews Michael, B. Beckerman W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 An excellent book I have loved working with this book. I conducted the 9th Symphony last year and this book was extremely helpful in studying the piece.             Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic2 reviews Walter Aaron Clark Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 fascinating and insightful + Transcendent music Aaron Clark is admirably unwilling to speculate as so many much earlier biographies of Albeniz have been about the more hazy periods in his life. He is particularly good on understanding the hyperbole and publicity-friendly porkies Albeniz was given to in the context of his character. Where he ...             Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano1 review Walter Aaron Clark Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Walter Clark Does It Again! For devotees of Spanish music, Walter Clark's biography on Isaac Albeniz was a hard act to follow, but he's done it again with this biography of Albeniz' contemporary, Enrique Granados. Clark brings both Granados and his music back to life in a brilliant work that sets new standards for musical ...             Puccini: A Biography3 reviews Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Northeastern, 2002 Puccini: a restless visionist and revisionist + Solid biography Having sung in "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly", my interest was piqued when I first heard about Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's wonderful new biography about Giacomo Puccini. Using his operas as chapter divisions, the author gives a firm basis on which to look at Puccini's life as he struggled with his ...             Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer20 reviews Tad Szulc Da Capo Press, 1999 Chopin in Paris is for the Literate + Flawed but STILL Fascinating The most fantastic level of detail, insight and analysis on Chopin! However, the depth and sophistication rendered by Tad Szulc is done so in a manner that the typical English reader (with a poor command of the language) will find difficult. If you are a literate reader this is the ultimate book ...             Mozart: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)21 reviews Peter Gay Viking Adult, 1999 Mozart's Life: Lite yet Substantial + Bravo Peter Gay + A good short life -but does not explain the miracle and mystery Peter Gay's `Mozart' is the sort of book a heavy-hitting historian like Gay writes while on holiday at the beach. Lite, witty and short, but still substantial enough to satisfy. (The same could be said for many of the excellent volumes of the Penguin Lives series--alas, now defunct.) As nearly ...             A Singer's Guide to the Songs of Joaqu'n Rodrigo Suzanne Rhodes Draayer, Joaquin Rodrigo Scarecrow Pr, 1999 An authoritative and indispensable guide to Joaqu'n Rodrigo's vast catalog of vocal works, "A Singer's Guide" provides word-for-word translations, idiomatic translations, and IPA transcriptions of Rodrigo's entire body of work, which encompasses eighty-seven songs. Other details given are background information, range, length and other relevant facts. Biographies of Rodrigo and his wife, Victoria ...             The Fallen Nightingale10 reviews John W. Milton Beaver's Pond Press, 2004 The amazing book and music + Enchanted + A Marvelous Read: John Milton's "The Fallen Nightingale" + "A Treasure"             New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life2 reviews Michael, B. Beckerman W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 An excellent book I have loved working with this book. I conducted the 9th Symphony last year and this book was extremely helpful in studying the piece.