Alexander Waugh Knihy

What food does He like to eat? What are His family like? What did He do before creating the world? The answers to all these questions are in the Bible, or have been written about by those who know Him best - saints, popes and visionaries. In this account of God's life, Alexander Waugh, author of TIME, tackles the biggest subject of them all. So many stories about God have been forgotten, or edged out of the familiar tales that we have lost out understanding of Him. Now we can once again find out more about who it is that we pray to.

With the help of dozens of extracts on the accompanying music CD, Alexander Waugh examines the different categories of voice and how to recognize them, and explores the relationship between the words and the music. He looks at the elements of live performance - from the star singers and producers to the chorus and orchestra - before taking a unique look behind the scenes at an opera house, following the preparations for an opera through rehearsals and set-building to the opening night.The heart of the book explores eight of the world's best-loved operas, including Mozart's action-packed Don Giovanni, Bizet's sensuous Carmen, and Puccini's impassioned Tosca. A key song from each opera is featured on the CD and analyzed moment-by-moment on an annotated "timeline," while the text discusses the musical and dramatic importance of the opera as a whole and looks at other celebrated operas by the same composer. With a listeners' guide to a further fifty essential operas, A New Way of Listening provides everything you need to know to enjoy the drama and beauty of this rich art.

Die Wittgensteins gehören zu den schillerndsten Familien des ausgehenden 19. und des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vater Karl hatte es als Stahlmagnat zu großem Vermögen gebracht und führte ein offenes Haus, in dem Musiker wie Brahms, Mahler oder Richard Strauss und die Wiener Avantgarde verkehrten. Seine Kinder jedoch litten unter dem strengen Vater: Drei der fünf Söhne brachten sich um, einer verschenkte sein Erbe und wurde ein weltbekannter Philosoph, einer blieb Pianist, der trotz fehlender rechter Hand konzertierte und sich von Ravel, Hindemith, Prokofjew oder Britten Stücke komponieren ließ. In seiner faszinierenden Biographie schildert Alexander Waugh die gesamte Tragik und Größe einer Familie vor dem Hintergrund zweier Weltkriege und dem Nationalsozialismus. Entstanden ist das erschütternde Portrait einer Familie so hochbegabter wie schwieriger Menschen