Tom Service

A History of the World in 50 Pieces

The Classical Music That Shapes Us

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Produktdetails

• BBC Books
• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781785949876
• ISBN-10: 178594987X
• Artikelnr.: 75423916

Autorenporträt

Tom Service presents the Saturday Morning programme and the New Music Show for BBC Radio 3, where he wrote and presented 250 editions of The Listening Service, and hosted Music Matters from 2003. His writing about music is at theguardian.com, he was Gresham Professor of Music from 2018-19, and Guest Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2005. He has made films for the BBC about composers from Mozart to Saariaho, and has been part of the radio and TV coverage of the BBC Proms for more than twenty years. His previous books include Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras, and Full of Noises, interviews with the composer Thomas Adès.