Music Against the Night
Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize finalist Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise.
Art music, orchestral & formal music
Music Against the Night: Unabridged edition
Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize finalist Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise.
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry
Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
The Rest Is Noise Series: Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century’s End
This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.
The Rest Is Noise Series: Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.
Not Abba: The Real Story of the 1970s
Not Abba tells the story of the 1970s, celebrating the musicians and songs that illuminated and soundtracked the ideas, fashions, sexual revolutions and raw politics of the decade.
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
The definitive history of the Britpop era – Oasis, Blur, Elastica and Tony Blair.