The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made by Lebrecht, Norman
The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made by Lebrecht, Norman

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's...
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The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made by Lebrecht, Norman

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

$34.16
The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made by Lebrecht, Norman

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

$34.16
Author: Norman Lebrecht
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso's first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Callas, and von Karajan.

Lebrecht compellingly demonstrates that classical recording has reached its end point-but this is not simply an expos? of decline and fall. It is, for the first time, the full story of a minor art form, analyzing the cultural revolution wrought by Schnabel, Toscanini, Callas, Rattle, the Three Tenors, and Charlotte Church. It is the story of how stars were made and broken by the record business; how a war criminal conspired with a concentration-camp victim to create a record empire; and how advancing technology, boardroom wars, public credulity and unscrupulous exploitation shaped the musical backdrop to our modern lives. The book ends with a suitable shrine to classical recording: the author's critical selection of the 100 most important recordings-and the 20 most appalling.

Filled with memorable incidents and unforgettable personalities-from Goddard Lieberson, legendary head of CBS Masterworks who signed his letters as God; to Georg Solti, who turned the Chicago Symphony into " the loudest symphony on earth"-this is at once the captivating story of the life and death of classical recording and an opinioned, insider's guide to appreciating the genre, now and for years to come.

Author: Norman Lebrecht
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 04/10/2007
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781400096589


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/15/2007 pg. 38
Library Journal 02/01/2007 pg. 74
Booklist 02/15/2007 pg. 22
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 274

About the Author
Norman Lebrecht, assistant editor of the Evening Standard in London and presenter of BBC's lebrecht.live, is a prolific writer on music and cultural affairs, whose weekly column has been called "required reading." Lebrecht has written eleven books about music, and is also author of the novel The Song of Names, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003.


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