Norman Lebrecht, Author . Northeastern Univ. $37.50 (580p) ISBN 978-1-55553-488-2
Lebrecht (The Maestro Myth
and Who Killed Classical Music?), music critic for the Daily Telegraph
in London, is one of the liveliest writers on music today, although occasionally he seems to enjoy whipping up a controversy or a scandal for its own...
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Norman Lebrecht, Author . Anchor $14 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-3489-5
In this highly entertaining and accomplished first novel by a well-known English journalist and music critic, two men who became friends as children in London during WWII are reunited after 40 years. In 1939, nine-year-old Martin Simmonds meets...
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Norman Lebrecht, Author . Anchor $14.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9658-9
British novelist and music critic Lebrecht (The Song of Names
) revisits the question raised in the title of his 1997 exposéWho Killed Classical Music?
Here he delivers a barbed requiem for the classical recording industry, reviewing its...
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Norman Lebrecht, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-307-37725-8
Whitbread First Novel Award–winner Lebrecht (for The Song of Names
) stiffly examines the psychological and moral dilemmas of living in a post-Holocaust world. When Paul Miller stumbles out of a work camp in an unnamed European country, he is...
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Norman Lebrecht, Pantheon, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-42381-9
Since the early 1970s, culture commentator Lebrecht (Who Killed Classical Music?) has pursued all things Gustav Mahler: his music, his genius, his problems (from depression to racism). More comprehensive than his 1987 work, Mahler Remembered, this...
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Norman Lebrecht, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $22.5 (380p) ISBN 978-1-55972-108-0
Despite the hokey title, this is the liveliest, most penetrating and best researched book on the nature of the orchestra conductor, and on many of the best-known past and current practitioners of that arcane art, to have appeared in years. Lebrecht,
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Norman Lebrecht, Author Citadel Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8065-1450-5
The most penetrating study of the role of the orchestra conductor to have appeared in recent years. Photos. (Nov.)
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Norman Lebrecht. Scribner, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3422-8
Music commentator Lebrecht (Why Mahler?) catalogues a century of important Jewish lives in this idiosyncratic and frantic cultural history. Each chapter centers on a single, pivotal year, allowing Lebrecht to weave together a collection of anecdotes
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