Entre mediados del siglo XIX y del siglo XX, un puñado de hombres y mujeres cambiaron la manera en que vemos el mundo. Algunos de ellos serán para siempre nombres de referencia: Marx, Freud, Proust,...

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic...

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. By examining one hundred of his compositions, a portrait emerges of the man behind the music.Lebrecht has immersed himself in the rich catalog of Beethoven recordings...

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world – and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and...

A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe...

Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the man and musician through the words of his contemporaries. Using many...

Más de un siglo después de su muerte, Gustav Mahler es el compositor más importante de los tiempos modernos. ¿Por qué Mahler? ¿Por qué su música nos afecta tanto? ¿Por qué un músico judío «tres veces...

Si Beethoven nunca hubiese existido, habitaríamos un universo musical radicalmente distinto. Pero ¿quién era realmente este titán de la cultura mundial? A través de un centenar de breves capítulos, cada...