Writing Music

Bibliographies and Resources

Bibliographies

Steven Isserlis:

• Why Beethoven Threw the Stew and Lots More Stories About the Lives of Great Composers (Faber 2001)

Norman Lebrecht:

• The Song of Names (Headline 2003)
• Covent Garden: The Untold Story (Simon & Schuster 2000)
• When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music (Pocket Books 1997)
• Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers, and Corporate Politics (Birch Lane Press 1997)
• The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors in the Pursuit of Power (Pocket Books 1997)
• The Moneying Of Music (Simon & Schuster 1996)
• Gustav Mahler (Mainz Schott 1993)
• The Companion to Twentieth-Century Music (Simon & Schuster 1992)
• Music in London (Aurum Press 1992)
• A Musical Book of Days (St Martins Press 1989)
• Mahler Remembered (W W Norton & Co 1988)
• Hush! Handel's in a Passion: Tales of Bach, Handel and Their Contemporaries (Deutsch 1985)
• Book of Musical Anecdotes (Deutsch 1985)
• Discord: Conflict and the Making of Music (Deutsch 1982)

Resources

Steven Isserlis:

Steven Isserlis’s website
http://www.stevenisserlis.com

Interviews and articles about Steven Isserlis
http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/Strings99/ (Jan ’02)

http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk (28/6/01)

http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/isserlis.htm (5/2/98)

http://inkpot.com/concert/int_isserlis.html

Norman Lebrecht:

Norman Lebrecht’s website
http://freespace.virgin.net/norman.lebrecht/

Article on Norman Lebrecht winning the Whitbread Award
http://books.guardian.co.uk/whitbread2002/story/ (8/1/03)

Interview of Norman Lebrecht by Mark Bridle
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2000/ (Sept ’00)

Covent Garden: The Untold Story reviewed by Marc Bridle
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/clasrev/2000/oct00/lebrecht.htm

Description of Norman Lebrecht’s The Maestro Myth and When The Music Stops
http://freespace.virgin.net/norman.lebrecht/other1.htm

Buy Books by Norman Lebrecht:
http://www.jazzandclassical.com/search/books/books/

Information on Norman Lebrecht’s BBC Radio 3 show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/lebrecht.shtml

‘The Lebrecht Weekly’ column for La Scena Musicale
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrechtindex.htm

Other articles by Norman Lebrecht
http://www.jcarreras.homestead.com/ (3/7/02)

http://www.dirigent.be/lebrecht.html (17/04/02)

http://www.culturekiosque.com/nouveau/comment/ (17/11/00)

http://www.geocities.com/kuala_bear/articles/lebrecht2.html (19/1/00)