The BBC Proms Guide to Great Orchestral Works

These are eminently readable and reliable collections, featuring the work of familiar writers we have long since learned to trust. Classical Music The BBC Proms Guides provide all the background and information you need about some of the most popular works in the repertory. As one of the worlds leading music festivals, the BBC Proms has over the years published unrivalled and highly- praised programme notes by some of todays leading writers on music. This volume covers a huge range of popular orchestral music in many forms - from Barbers famous Adagio through to orchestral extracts from Wagners operas - and some of the most often- programmed concert works including Debussys La Mer, Holsts The Planets, Ravels Bolero, Strausss Don Juan, and a wealth of tone poems, symphonic studies and essays, dances, variations and concertos for orchestra. If you want to know more about how these great works were written and what to listen out for as you encounter these remarkable pieces, this is the place to start.

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