This guide to the main concert repertory explores and interprets significant and frequently-played orchestral works. Each of the 39 composers is introduced in a biographical sketch and placed in the musical context of his time. The author also offers the reader his thoughts on style, form and historical perspective. Antony Hopkins is the writer and presenter of BBC "Talking About Music" programmes.
- ISBN10 0460861093
- ISBN13 9780460861090
- Publish Date 10 June 1993 (first published 1 November 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 March 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 672
- Language English