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CHOPIN – His Life And Music
268pp, p/bk, illustr. With 2 CDs. ISBN 1-84379-115-3
Pub. Naxos 2006
GODOWSKY - The Pianists' Pianist
The biography of Leopold Godowsky
390 pages, including 16 of black and white photographs. The English edition is published by Appian Publications and Recordings.
The current UK price (hard cover) is £30 + p&p and it is available directly from Jeremy Nicholas, signed by the author (please contact jeremy@jeremynicholas.com)
Press comments:
'As a biography, as a gathering together of every scrap of information, every fascinating anecdote, every detail of his travels, it's immaculate.' Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4
'Jeremy Nicholas has produced a biography that brings this very complicated and enigmatic artist to life. Compulsive and enigmatical, yet generous, gracious, naive and in his final years bitterly depressed, Godowsky emerges as a strangely sympathetic figure, one deserving of respect for his determination and artistic conviction.' ARSC Journal
'It is an enthusiast's book...informative and unpretentious. It also contains a foreword by the leading disciple among present day pianists, Jorge Bolet.' Musical Times
'Nicholas's narrative makes for compelling reading. The book...is filled with riches' The Piano Quarterly
'Once again, we are indebted to APR for making us aware of someone most of us have chosen to ignore. The project was obviously a labour of love for Jeremy Nicholas and we must be grateful for his scholarshoip and persistance in bringing it to fruition.' ARSC Journal
THE BOOK HAS ALSO BEEN TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN. WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING A PUBLISHER FOR THIS.
Ludwig Madlener (translator) is a lecturer in Classics and a musicologist with a specialist knowledge of the piano. He has one of the most complete collections of Godowsky's piano music in existence and is an acknowledged expert in his own right on the composer. The new German translation Godowsky - The Pianists' Pianist has a fully revised text and includes an updated discography.
Visit The Leopold Godowsky website.
The Classic
FM Good Music Guide
Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, p/back.
The Classic
FM Guide to Classical Music
Pavilion Books, 1996, h/back, 375pp.
Pavilion Books, 1997 with revisions and updated, p/back.
Press comments:
'Jeremy Nicholas has achieved a remarkable feat of concision without sacrificing an ounce of human interest or readability. If you have room for only one reference book concerned with the composers of classical music, then it seems to me that this Classic FM Guide is the one you should possess.' Humphrey Burton
'Great book, wonderful read.' James Galway
'This book is a fascinating and accessible guide to the wonderful world of classical music, and I am sure that it will provide an informative and illuminating source of insight and joy for everybody from the beginner to the musicologist.' Sir Edward Heath
'I certainly know of no better basic guide to classical music.' Julian Lloyd Webber
Raspberries
and Other Trifles - Tales for Discerning Delinquents
A parody of Hilaire Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales'
Hutchinson, 1984, h/back. Illustrated by Jon Higham
Dragon Books, 1987, p/back.
A Beginner's
Guide to Opera
Companion to the Channel Four TV series
Ebury Press, 1993, 160pp, p/back
Crescent Books, 1994, h/back
Press comments:
'A book which does exactly what it sets out to do and, I think, more into the bargain... as sensible in approach as it is economical in demands upon shelf space. The operas are wisely chosen for their value to beginners... the photographs and other illustrations are delightfully selected and excellently reproduced. In practical effect, the Beginner's Guide could be more important than all the opera encyclopaedias in the world' John Steane in Gramophone
'Elegantly designed and imaginatively illustrated... Nicholas writes lucidly and with enthusiasm... the research seems scrupulous, and the book can be safely recommended to anyone in search of operatic guidance.' Ian Brunskill in Opera
'The great advantage of Nicholas's book is that it covers the basic ground in easy-to-read language and at a price that makes it attractive.' Richard Fawkes in Opera Now
'The book is a good first step for those who want to know more about opera without having to delve into the more learned, and perhaps, intimidating tomes. It is a very useful guide to those who want to listen to more opera or are thinking of going to see one, perhaps for the first time.' Classical Music
'...not only a good read, it should also prove a mine of information from which even the seasoned opera goers will derive benefit.' Belfast Telegraph
'Nicholas makes accessible and amusing a subject that previously seemed highbrow and serious ... it offers everything you need to turn you from an opera duff to an opera buff.' Bournemouth Evening Echo
'The author manages
to strike just the right note between entertainment and information, avoiding
the trap of talking down to an audience which might not know as much about music
as the opera buff but is in serious pursuit of education... it deserves to do
well.' Gloucester Echo
Victorian
Curiosities
Little Brown, 1995, h/back. Illustrated by John Higham
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A collection of brief Victorian articles on such fascinating subjects as 'The advantages of greasing soldiers' feet', 'Executions everywhere', 'Curious names of American newspapers', 'Language of the parasol', 'The flapping of a fly's wing' and advice on 'The best day on which to cut your toe-nails' . Essential loo-side reading.