The BBC Proms Guide to Great Concertos

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Kenyon 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 read History at Balliol College! Oxford! and his first post was with the English Bach Festival 1973-6. He was a music critic for The New Yorker! The Times! and the Observer ! and has written the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra! the biography of Simon Rattle! edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music ! and co-edited The Proms: A New History . He is a member of the boards of English National Opera and Sage Gateshead! a Trustee of Dartington Hall and a member of Arts Council England. Zusammenfassung The "BBC Proms Guides" provide information you need about some of the most popular works in the repertory. The second volume surveys some of the best-loved concertos written across the centuries, from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" through to the contemporary masterpieces of Walton and Lutoslawski.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Kenyon
• Assisted by: Nicholas Kenyon (Editor), Sir Nicholas Kenyon (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.04.2004
• EAN: 9780571223312
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22331-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; MUSIC / Reference, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Educational: Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Light Orchestral & Big Band Music, BBC Proms; Institutions; Orchestras