Another book review. After I finished reading counterpoint (last Tuesday evening) I made a bunch of train journeys, which means I could read a lot. So I finished another book already (finished it some days ago, but I had to make some time to translate the review).
I read ‘Wild harmonies’. Subtitle is ‘Life with music [...]
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Counterpoint in the latest novel by the Dutch writer Anna enquist. The structure of this book is based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Golberg Variations. A woman of a certain age, decides to study the variations one more time. Meanwhile she overlooks her life, remembering her daughter and son. Each variations is an episode of her [...]
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Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (Sorry if I love you), is a novel by the Italian author Federico Moccia. His books are very popular in Italy, some of them have even been adapted for the screen. I bought the Spanish translantion, Perdona si te llamo amor, during my visit to Madrid in July. It took [...]
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I wish I had my birthday more than once a year, so I could get crazy in book shops more often. Like today, I bought:
Hear, listen, play part 2 for clarinet (sheet music)
Thad Carhart: The piano shop (book)
Olivier Pourriol: Mephisto Valse (book)
Margriet de Moor: Kreutzersonate & The Virtuoso (book)
Roberta Guaspari en Larkin Warren: Music of [...]
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This time I brought home:
Andromeda Romano: The Spanish bow (book)
Michael Nyman: After Extra Time (cd)
Brass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: works of Willem van Otterloo, Nick Woud, Giovanni Gebriele, Hans Werner Henze, William Schmidt and Derek Bourgeois (cd)
Christian Lindberg: The winter trombone, works of Antonio Vivalde, Darius Milhaud, Lars-Erik Larsson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Roland [...]
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My evening I spent looking through books and sheet music at the library of Maastricht. Here’s what I brought:
Alexandre Tharaud plays Ravel (cd)
Ann Livermore: A short history of Spanish music (book)
Alma Mahler: Gustav Mahler, memories and letters (book)
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango for piano (sheet music)
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango for clarinet and piano (sheet [...]
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What I brought home from the library in Hasselt:
Thomas Mann: Dokter Faustus (book)
Michael Nyman: Piano Concerto, Musique à Grande Vitesse (cd)
Alban Berg: Wozzeck (cd)
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango, Estaciones Porteñas, 6 Tango etudes, Tango no. 2 (cd)
Songs from Spain and Argentina: works by Alberto Ginastera, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados,… (cd)
New Trombone Collective (cd)
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