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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc 02 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD recording: "BBC Singers: A 70th anniversary celebration" (includes music by Bach, Reger, Lassus, Mendelssohn, Delius, Stanford, Ravel, Birtwistle, Holst and Bond, conducted by Jane Glover, Bo Holtenand Simon Joly). This issue contains the following articles: "This month's CD Listening Guide" (track-by-track guide) by Nicholas Williams; "O happy band of versatile pilgrims" (The BBC Singers 70th anniversary) by Nicholas Williams; "Company Profile: BIS" (BIS Records is a record label founded in 1973 by Robert von Bahr) by Nick Kimberley; "In hot pursuit of the elusive sounds of the ancient world" (speculation on the sound of ancient music) by John Milsom; "Stay cool-don't flunk the funk" (rock stars have their own exams) by Simon Parkin; "music in art: 'Clara Schumann' and 'Richard Wagner' by Franz von Lenbach" by Tom Phillips; "First among equals" (London Symphony Orchestra) by Douglas Kennedy; "Recorded Reputations: Joan Sutherland" by John Steane; "Why don't women buy CDs?" opinion by Germaine Greer and Phil Sommerich; "Composer of the Month: Emmanuel Chabrier" by James Harding; "The bearable lightness of being" (Peter Maxwell Davies) interview by David Owen Norris; "Beneath the penguin suits" (Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern discuss getting children interested in classical music) by Robert Cowan; "Building a Library: Handel; 'Israel in Egypt'" by John Steane; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (recommended essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "Paris in the swingtime" (1920s and 1930s Paris was the jazz capital of Europe) by Ian Carr; "Music that changed me: Jeffrey Tate, conductor" interview by David Blum.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. bbc01 8½"x11"; 106 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD "Beethoven: Piano Sonatas in B flat, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier) and in C minor, Op. 111" performed by Edith Vogel (piano) This issue contains the following articles: "Tuning up: Concert halls, better live than dead?" (acoustics of concert halls) by Tommy Pearson; "Music in art: 'David and Saul' by Rembrant van Rijn" by Tom Phillips; "The proud chatelaine" (Kiri Te Kanawa celebrates her 50th birthday) by Lesley Garner; "Flights of Fantasy" (Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy-tale operas) by David Nice; "Super sleuths" (Sotheby's Simon Maguire, Stephen Roe detecting musical forgery, fraud and deception) by Graham Topping; "A History of Deception" (some infamous forgeries) by Albi Rosenthal; "Composer of the Month: Ludwig van Beethoven" (Part 1: juggling incentive and inspiration) by Barry Cooper; "Saint or Sinner?" (Keith Jarrett) by David Patrick Stearns; "Recorded Reputations: Boris Christoff" by Richard Fairman; "Never too early" ('Early Music' Nikolaus Harnoncourt) by Nicholas Anderson; "Never too Late" ('Early Music' Christopher Hogwood) by Lindsay Kemp; "Eastern uprising" ('Early Music' in Eastern Europe) by Peter Holman; "One off the beat" (Dave Brubeck) by Ian Carr; "Footnote" (the problem of 18th century operas with 20th century staging) by Charles Osborne; "Building a Library: Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.9) by Bernard Keeffe; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (recommended essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "Music that changed me: Sir Claus Moser".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. bbc02 8½"x11"; 108 pages; Soft Pictorial Cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. Due to USPS regulations, this item may require additional postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. BBC Music Magazine is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. Each edition comes together with an audio CD, often including BBC recordings of full-length works. The first issue appeared in September 1992. The magazine includes regular columns and reviews of new releases as well as several in depth feature articles by noted music writers. Each issue contains a CD featuring complete works by the greatest composers, performed by world-class artists and ensembles. This issue includes the audio CD "Rimsky-Korsakov, Introduction & Wedding March from The Golden Cockerel and Capriccio espagnol and Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration)" performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier. This issue contains the following articles: "Couzens, kith and kin" (company profile of the record company Chandos) by Nick Kimberley; "Music in art" ('The Sense of Hearing' by Philippe Mercier and 'The Sharp Family: A Musical Party on the Thames' by Johann Zoffany) by Tom Phillips; "Bernstein and the British" (Leonard Bernstein) by Humphrey Burton; "The Art of Arranging Pictures" (different orchestrations for Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition') by Michael Russ; "The Pictures" (the exhibition of the art of Viktor Hartmann which was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition') by Tom Phillips; "The song on the Tyne is all mine" (artistic director of the Northern Sinfonia Heinrich Schiff) by Lindsay Kemp; "Composer of the Month: Johann Sebastian Bach" by Nicholas Anderson; "Women Composers: Past & Present" (Ethel Smythe) by Jeremy Siepmann; "Present women composers" (Judith Weir, Meredith Monk, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kaija Saariaho, Joan Tower, Karen Tanaka, Thea Musgrave, Elena Firsova) by Jessica Duchen; "Building a Library" (Die Zauberflote) by John Steane; "Brian Kay's Starter Collection" (recommended essential performances from the classical repertoire) by Brian Kay; "The Grand Old Duke" (Duke Ellington) by Stuart Nicholson; "Music that changed me: Frans Bruggen" interview by Jessica Duchen.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, religious beliefs, and superstitions. Others have used different types of birds to express their thoughts and emotions. This volume highlights these remarkable creatures as they take flight from the Elizabethan era through the twentieth century. Selections from classic to contemporary authors include poems by Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats, and others. This anthology is ideal for classroom use, independent study, and personal perusal. Birds have long been a source of inspiration for poets, from the Elizabethan era through the twentieth century. This volume includes poems by Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, William Butler Yeats, and others. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. This paperback edition shows signs of wear consistent with age, including a personal inscription on the cover. The binding is intact, and the pages are clean, though the cover exhibits some creasing and discoloration. No dust jacket is present, as typical for this format.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 98 pages. 7.75x4.75x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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dvd. Condition: Used - Good.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Colm Toibin "I was mary Queen of Scots" / John Lanchester "Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain" / Ian Sansom "Anthony Powell: A Life" / Chalmers Johnson "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 10 September 2001" / Nicholas Penny at the Royal Scottish Academy / Ian Hacking "In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion" / David runciman "Neo-Blairism" / Hilary Mantel "I have washed my feet out of it".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Neal Ascherson in Saakashvili's Georgia / Hilary Mantel on the Hair Shirt Sisterhood / Andrew O'Hagan "Morrisey" / James Lasdun "Losing in Las Vegas" / Adam Phillips "Dylan Thomas" / Jenny Diski "Goffman's Legacy" / Nicholas Penny at the National Gallery / Frank Kermode "Winnicott" / Bernard Porter "Cannabis Britannica : Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928" / Charles Simic 2 poems. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Conor Gearty "Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention" / Nicholas penny dehends Anthony Blunt / Adam Phillips "Freud, Eliot and Original Sin" / Kathleen Jamie "Biking to Tobermory" / Hugh Pennington "A History of Anthrax" / Miles taylor "The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838-50" / Peter Campbell at the National Gallery / Robert Macfarlane "The Search for the Panchen Lama".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. James Davidson "Why would a guy want to marry a guy?" / Michael Wood "Henry James and the Great War" / Andrew O'Hagan "Michael Finkel gets Lucky" / barbara Taylor "My Mennonite Conversion" / Alan Ryan "Henry Sidgwick's Anxieties" / David Runciman "The Death Tax" / Tony Harrison "On the Metre" (poem) / Nicholas Guyatt "Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Jenny Diski "Misogyny: The Male Malady" / Nicholas Jenkins "Raymond Roussel and the Republic of dreams" / Robin Robertson - 3 poems / Kasha Pollitt "The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo, Menstruation" / Rory Stewart walks across Iran / David Bell "Napoleon's Literary Ambitions" / Conor Gearty "The IRA's Best Move" / August Kleinzahler "The Old Poet, Dying" (poem) / Peter Campbell at the Musee Galliera / Rosemary Hill "'The Buildings of England': A Celebration" / Thomas Jones "Gun, with Occasional Music".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Includes first book publication of Hemingway's "The Light of the World" and Welty's "The Hitch-Hikers" and others. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar jacket cover.