The BBC Proms Pocket Guide to Great Symphonies (BBC Proms Pocket Guides) - Softcover

Kenyon CBE, Sir Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057122332X ISBN 13: 9780571223329

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

The BBC Proms Guides provide all the background and information you need about some of the most popular works in the repertory. As one of the world's leading music festivals, the BBC Proms has over the years published unrivalled and highly-praised programme notes by some of today's leading writers on music.

This volume provides an accessible and authoritative guide to some of the greatest symphonies. From Haydn and Mozart to the masters of the twentieth century, including the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Sibelius, these are works which have shown their continual power to move and engage audiences, and which have remained central to our concert-going, broadcasting and record listening over generations.

If you want to know more about how the great symphonies were written and what to listen out for as you encounter these remarkable pieces, this is the place to start.

About this title

About the Author

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, CBE, has been Managing Director of the Barbican Centre since 2007. He was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007, and Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998. He has written The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart, the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the biography of Simon Rattle, edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music and co-edited Proms: A New History. He was knighted in 2008. He lives in London with his wife and four children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057122332X
• ISBN 13: 9780571223329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331
• Editor: Kenyon CBE Sir Nicholas