Tina K Kamnarine Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It...

David Hurwitz The fall of the Soviet empire has not diminished the popularity of Dmitri Shostakovich's great symphonies and concertos one bit, despite the fact that most literature on him...

John Bell Young (Unlocking the Masters). In this survey of Brahm's music, John Bell Young explores in depth the composer's private world of musical intimacies that infuriated Wagner, but inspired...

William Brown Menahem Pressler is a world-renowned piano soloist, master class teacher, and member of the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio. In this companion to his first book, Menahem Artistry in...

David Damschroder This innovative book continues David Damschroder's radical reformulation of harmonic theory, presenting a dynamic exploration of harmony in the compositions of Mendelssohn and Schumann, two key figures of...

Albert R Rice The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth...

Richard Crawford New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway, where he fashioned his...

Randolph S Churchill Volume II of this magisterial eight-volume biography takes Churchill’s story from his entry to Parliament in 1901 to the outbreak of war in 1914. When he took...

Martin Gilbert The third volume in the multi-volume biography of Winston S. Churchill begins with a study of Churchill's ebullient mood on the eve of war in 1914. It contrasts...

Martin Gilbert Road to Victory takes up the story of "Churchill's War" at the moment where Finest Hour ended, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and carries it on...

Martin Gilbert This fascinating volume, based upon a wealth of private archives, charts Churchill's career between the wars. It opens with his return to Conservatism and to the Cabinet in...

Martin Gilbert The final volume of the official biography spans Churchill’s life from the defeat of Germany in 1945 to his death nearly twenty years later. It sees him first...