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Author: Tully Potter
Publisher: Toccata Press
Imprint: Toccata Press
Edition: New ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9780907689508
ISBN 10: 0907689507
Pages: 1408
Publication Date: 17 September 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A meticulous narrative of over 900 pages...perhaps even more compelling are the remaining 400 pages of interpretive essays and source materials. BBC Music (5 stars)A splendidly lucid, abundantly well-judged tribute. NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
The words magisterial and monumental are no hyperbole as applied to this remarkable pair of volumes AMERCAN RECORD GUIDEThis is far and away the greatest biography of a musician (...) I have encountered for many years. It is simply a magnificent achievement after what must have been lifetime's study. MUSICAL OPINION Potter's deeply researched tomes encapsulate a whole era of musical history in lucid, engaging prose that brings Busch and his contemporaries vividly to life. STRINGENDOTully Potter's epic narrative (is) a real labour of love which has preoccupied him for the past 40 years.TEMPO Potter's point of view regards Busch's life as a journey that needs to be witnessed and observed to understand the life and times of the man. (...) As portrayed by Potter, classical music not only affects individuals, it affects nations as well. STRINGS A labour of love 30 years in the making, this monumental biography does credit to its subject, its author and its publisher. (...) The book brims with fascinating, amusing, surprising and touching incident and insight. THE STRAD After reading Tully Potter's exhaustive two-volume biography Adolf Busch 'The Life of an Honest Musician', one comes away not only with the greatest respect and admiration for the subject. THE TABLET A brief review cannot hope to do justice to this comprehensively researched and beautifully produced book. (...) How to behave under a tyranny is a complicated question for all but a few rare spirits. Busch was one of them. This remarkable book honours him for it, at last, and for his wonderful music-making. SUNDAY TIMESThe book is a barn-burner, impossible to put down, as the musical world of the era flashes by. (...) this is a magnificent achievement, one to challenge all future biographers of any musician. FANFARE (D)eserves wider circulation in its own right, as an evocation of a tumultuous era in which right and wrong were plainly discernible yet all too rarely acted upon. INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEWEvery great musician deserves his or her Tully Potter. ... The variety of sources quoted is dizzying, from personal interveserves his or her Tully Potter. ... The variety of sources quoted is dizzying, from personal interviews... to little-known books and journals. GRAMOPHONE (A)t once a stirring tale and a dist
Author Information
Tully Potter, born in Edinburgh in 1942, spent his formative years in South Africa. A serious record collector since the age of twelve, he has made a special study of performing practice in vocal, string and chamber music. He is opera critic for The Daily Mail and for more than half a century has contributed to musical periodicals. He wrote many articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and has lectured widely on historical recordings. From 1997 to 2008 he edited Classic Record Collector.
