Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

di Tom Service (Autore)

Faber & Faber, 2014

How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound should be elevated to demigod-like status by the public. This is the first book to go inside the rehearsal rooms of some of the most inspirational orchestral partnerships in the world - how Simon Rattle works at the Berlin Philharmonic, how Mariss Jansons deals with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and how Claudio Abbado creates the world's most luxurious pick-up band every year with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, great orchestral concerts are recreated as a collection of countless human and musical stories.

• Autore: Tom Service
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 128 mm
• Peso: 244 gr.
• EAN: 9780571240487

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