Richard Bratby Livres

The story of Classical Music in picture, word and sound, from Hildegard of Bingen to Saariaho. Features a free app with more than 100 high-quality audio clips. Introduces the greatest composers and lets you hear their most famous works as you read. Shows the instruments and how they are played and combined to make music.

Founded in 1973 by conductor Christopher Hogwood with the aim of energising baroque and classical music, the Academy of Ancient Music heralded a revolution in the way orchestral music is performed. During the 1970s and 80s the Academy surfed the digital boom in recorded music with unprecedented success, lifting period instrument performance from the fringes of 1960s counterculture and putting baroque music into the pop charts. As the classical record industry faded and 1970s radicals became the 1990s establishment, the AAM faced a new challenge: reinventing itself to meet the artistic, social and economic conditions of a musical world transformed by its own revolutionary achievement. This is the first full-length narrative history of a British period-instrument orchestra - a comprehensive account of how this influential ensemble came into being, achieved global fame, and then remade itself, securing a future and a purpose beyond the retirement of its charismatic founder. Richard Bratby has interviewed many of those who played a role in the Academy's foundation and progress, using their accounts to tell the orchestra's story for the very first time.

Seznam se s největšími skladateli všech dob, přečti si o nich a poslechni si ukázky jejich děl. Zjisti víc o hudebních nástrojích, o tom, jak se na ně hraje a jak se při tvorbě hudby dávají dohromady. Objev nejznámější opery, symfonie, balety a koncerty. Příběh západní hudby od Beethovena, Haydna, Čajkovského až po Smetanu a Dvořáka. Zahrnuje bezplatnou aplikaci s více než 100 krátkých zvukových klipů. Poznámka: Ke stažení a spuštění hudebních ukázek ve vlastním smartphonu nebo tabletu lze využít bezplatnou aplikaci v App Store a Google Play Poznámka: Aplikace ConBrio funguje v operačním systému IOS (verze 11 a novější) a Android (verze 7 a novější)