Talking about Music: Symphonies, Concertos and Sonatas

by Antony Hopkins, John Barkwith (Illustrator)

Looking in turn at more than thirty great masterworks of music, Antony Hopkins explains, illustrates and elucidates the world of the symphony, the concerto and the sonata.

Talking About Music gives a new [1970s] and illuminating grasp of the whole spectrum of musical experience - from Haydn to Bartok, Schubert to Stravinsky, Mozart to Berg.

Antony Hopkns is a composer, conductor pianist and broadcaster. Talking About Music is based on his popular radio series, which has made him known to millions as a persuasive and entertaining guide to the world of music.

Genres: Music

462 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Antony Hopkins CBE (21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was a composer, pianist, and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster. He was widely known for his books of musical analysis and for his radio programmes Talking About Music, broadcast by the BBC from 1954 for approaching 40 years, first on the Third Programme, later Radio 3, and then on Radio 4.--Wikipedia