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REVIEWS
Edward
ELGAR (1857-1934)
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minor
The
sketches of Edward Elgar completed and orchestrated
by Anthony Payne Full Score Duration: 9 Minutes
53pp large study format Performance materials
available on hire £12.99 Boosey & Hawkes
ISBN 978 0 85162 547 8
As
yet there is no recording but aspiring concert
promoters, orchestral managements and record
companies would do well to give this overture
length march a close look. ... see Full
Review
ELGAR: AN ANNIVERSARY
PORTRAIT introduced
by Nicholas Kenyon Continuum, 2007 199pp ISBN
9780826496966 £16.99 (hardback)[GHu]
A
very welcome and stimulating addition to the
Elgar bibliography... see
review
Bruce Montgomery/Edmund
Crispin: A Life In Music And Books by
David Whittle ISBN-
13: 978-0-7546-3443-0 ISBN- 10: 0-7546-3443-4
ASHGATE 2007 £60 314pp [JF]
Extensively
researched and approachable. The market it
serves reaches out to include students of
film and classical music, detective fiction,
Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. ... see Full
Review
RACHMANINOFF:
Life, Works, Recordings by
Max Harrison ISBN 978-0-8264-9312-5 Continuum
Press; paperback 422 pages £18:99
A
most satisfying biography and appreciation
of one of the 20th century’s greatest
musicians ... see Full
Review
The Percy
Whitlock Companion Selected
and edited by Malcolm Riley The Percy Whitlock
Trust, 2007, ISBN 978 0 9555669 0 5, £18 288
pp, 38 illus., song, appendices Obtainable
from the Trust; Malcolm Riley, 32 Butcher
Close, Staplehurst, Kent TN12 0TJ £18 plus
£2 p & p. Cheques payable to "The
Percy Whitlock Trust" [JW]
His
now stilled written voice comes across intimately
in this handsomely produced volume ... see
Full Review
Zarathustra
By
Sina Vodjani Membran
International. Hardback. 273pp. (+ CD and
DVD) ISBN 978-3-86562-739-1 £30 [GPu]
Vodjani’s
evocation of a world very unfamiliar to most
in the west and increasingly demonised by
the west, can be warmly recommended. ... see
Full Review
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