Songs of experience : Michael Tippett at eighty five /

“…Sir Michael Tippett…”
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King Priam

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Try whistling this : writings on music by Ford, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…To Be a Pilgrim: The music of Ralph Vaughan WilliamsHolst, the Mystic; William Walton: A twentieth-century Romantic; Thinking of Michael Tippett: A centenary essay; The Letters of Michael Tippett and Robert Lowell; Britten and the Poets; Percy Grainger: The objections; On Resisting Identity; David Lumsdaine's Ground; Misunderstanding Malcolm Williamson; Richard Meale: A eulogy; The Luck of Brett Dean; Meeting Mary Finsterer; Messiaen and Carter: Two centenaries; Luciano Berio Remembers the Future; Keith Jarrett and His Archetypal Standards; Cole Porter: Words and music.…”
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The Stonehenge people : an exploration of life in Neolithic Britain, 4700-2000 BC by Castleden, Rodney

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD BY SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THE MYSTERIOUS MONUMENT; HERE IN THIS MAGIC WOOD; HEARTH AND HOME; THE BROKEN CIRCLE; OF THE EFFECTE OF CERTAINE STONES; CLAY CIRCLES: THE FIRST POTTERY; BY WHAT MECHANICAL CRAFT; BY THE DEVIL'S FORCE; EARTH CIRCLES AND EARTH LINES: THE RITUAL FUNCTION; THE OLD TEMPLES OF THE GODS; DIALOGUE WITH DEATH; THE LAUGHING CHILDREN; THE PEACEFUL CITADEL; THE GREAT MYSTERY; THE SPEAKING STONES; CHILDHOOD'S END; APPENDIX: CONVERSION TABLES FOR RADIOCARBON DATES; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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Famous Prisoners of Wormwood Scrubs. by Wade, Stephen

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BBC Proms. 2001, The last night of the BBC Proms. Part 1

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The classical music lover's companion to orchestral music by Philip, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mily Balakirev -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Hector Berlioz -- Georges Bizet -- Alexander Borodin -- Bohuslav Martinú -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Darius Milhaud -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Musorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Emmanuel Charbrier -- Frédéric Fryderyk Chopin -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Claude Debussy -- Frederick Delius -- Antonin Dvor̆ák -- Edward Elgar -- Manuel de Falla -- Gabriel Fauré -- César Franck -- George Gershwin -- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka -- Edvard Grieg -- George Frideric Handel / Georg Friedrich HăndelL -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Leos̆ Janác̆ek -- Franz Liszt -- Gustav Mahler -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Maurice Ravel -- Nikolai Rimskykorsakov -- Gioachino Rossini -- Camille Saintsaëns -- Erik Satie -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Alexander Scriabin / Aleksandr Nikolayevich Skryabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedr̆ich Smetana -- Rirchard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Michael Tippett -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern.…”
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BBC Proms. 2001, The last night of the BBC Proms. Part 2

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The opera lover's companion by Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Table of Contents: “…ICH SMETANA; JOHANN STRAUSS II; RICHARD STRAUSS; IGOR STRAVINSKY; KAROL SZYMANOWSKI; PETER ILITSCH TCHAIKOVSKY; MICHAEL TIPPETT…”
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The opera lover's companion by Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Table of Contents: “…ICH SMETANA; JOHANN STRAUSS II; RICHARD STRAUSS; IGOR STRAVINSKY; KAROL SZYMANOWSKI; PETER ILITSCH TCHAIKOVSKY; MICHAEL TIPPETT…”
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Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 : Art, Modernity and the National Stage. by Morra, Irene

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The Shock of Recognition : the Books and Music That Have Inspired Me. by Jones, Barry

Table of Contents: “…EDWARD ELGARFREDERICK DELIUS; HUGO WOLF; RICHARD STRAUSS; SERGEI RACHMANINOFF; 5 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC; MODERN; GUSTAV MAHLER; CLAUDE DEBUSSY; JEAN SIBELIUS; CARL NIELSEN; RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; GUSTAV HOLST; ARNOLD SCHOENBERG; ALBAN BERG; ANTON WEBERN; CHARLES IVES; IGOR STRAVINSKY; MAURICE RAVEL; BÉLA BARTÓK; FRANK MARTIN; SERGEI PROKOFIEV; PAUL HINDEMITH; ERICH KORNGOLD; ARNOLD BAX; ARTHUR BLISS; AARON COPLAND; WILLIAM WALTON; MICHAEL TIPPETT; BENJAMIN BRITTEN; OLIVIER MESSIAEN; DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH; LEONARD BERNSTEIN; RODION SHCHEDRIN; HENRYK GÓRECKI; CONTEMPORARY; ELLIOTT CARTER.…”
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