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Rough Ideas–Reflections On Music And More; Stephen Hough (Farar, Straus and Giroux; 2020) The Little Bach Book; David Gordon (Lucky

David Vernier April 11, 2021

Roger Allen. Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018 (286pp). Just how smart

David Hurwitz July 7, 2018

Harvey Sachs: Toscanini, Musician of Conscience (Liveright Publishing Corporation [W.W. Norton], 2017). Arturo Toscanini was a simple man at heart.

David Hurwitz October 2, 2017

Henry Louis de la Grange (Oxford) April, 2008 Henry-Louis de la Grange’s fourth and final volume in his epic Mahler

David Hurwitz April 8, 2008

An Improbable Life: Memoirs by Robert Craft (Vanderbilt University Press) It’s about time that Robert Craft spent some time explaining

David Hurwitz October 23, 2002

W.W. Norton and Co. (599 pages; Hardcover) Harvard professor and eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff’s new book Bach: The Learned

David Hurwitz October 9, 2001

Barcelona Obertura: A Spring Festival Of Opera And Classical Music
by ClassicsToday
January 11, 2023
Barcelona; January 10, 2023—Barcelona Obertura is an unprecedented initiative in the cultural world, a joint collaboration with the three most important classical music venues in
Library Essentials 4: 3 For The Last Days Of Christmas
by David Vernier
December 26, 2022
At the beginning of what in some circles is called the Holy Nights, in others the Twelve Days of Christmas (ending on Twelfth Night, the
Library Essentials 3: Three More (Timeless) Christmas Stars
by David Vernier
December 8, 2022
They may be from the distant past, but these three Christmas recordings hold up as well or better than most anything in the catalog. The