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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,271 ratings — published 2007
Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,184 ratings — published
The Amber Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,967 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Theft (Lady Sherlock, #4)
by (shelved 26 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,737 ratings — published 2019
The Muralist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,252 ratings — published 2015
The Foundling (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,534 ratings — published 2020
An Inside Job (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.38 — 29,842 ratings — published 2025
The Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,766 ratings — published 2018
The Arnolfini Art Mysteries (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,377 ratings — published
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 802,307 ratings — published 1999
The Gauguin Connection (Genevieve Lenard, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,827 ratings — published 2012
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,665 ratings — published 2014
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,850 ratings — published 2013
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,873 ratings — published 2016
The Picasso Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.88 — 15,263 ratings — published 2025
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,886 ratings — published 2017
The Violinist of Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,968 ratings — published 2015
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,034 ratings — published 2014
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,528 ratings — published 1971
The Glassblower of Murano (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.63 — 8,367 ratings — published 2006
Clara and Mr. Tiffany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.88 — 58,338 ratings — published 2010
The Other Einstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.87 — 91,639 ratings — published 2016
Vivaldi's Virgins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,059 ratings — published 2007
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,827 ratings — published 2008
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 500 ratings — published 1992
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,604 ratings — published 1939
False Impression (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,991 ratings — published 2005
The Improbability of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.70 — 16,430 ratings — published 2015
The Stolen Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,769 ratings — published 2025
Harlem Rhapsody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,400 ratings — published 2025
The Age of Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.58 — 13,798 ratings — published 2019
The Lives of the Great Composers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,623 ratings — published 1970
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,526 ratings — published 2011
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.13 — 4,007 ratings — published 2007
Chasing Cezanne (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,406 ratings — published 1991
The Orphan's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,372 ratings — published 2017
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,001 ratings — published 2022
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,399 ratings — published 2005
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.67 — 71,090 ratings — published 2021
The Modigliani Scandal (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.34 — 15,962 ratings — published 1976
The Violin Conspiracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 71,116 ratings — published 2022
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,601 ratings — published 2009
The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 39,046 ratings — published 2010
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.45 — 692 ratings — published 2018
Mozart: The Reign of Love — A Biography of a Classical Composer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.33 — 927 ratings — published 2020
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,350 ratings — published 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,221 ratings — published 2000
Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 644 ratings — published 2002
Johannes Brahms: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 918 ratings — published 1997
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as classical-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,452 ratings — published 2006
“The fact that the work today has become common property may console us for the other fact that an analysis of it is almost as impossible as it is to depict a wood by enumerating the trees and describing their appearance. We can only repeat again and again—take them and play them and penetrate into this world for yourself. Aesthetic elucidation of any kind must necessarily be superficial here, What so fascinates us in the work is not the form or the build of the piece, but the world-view that is mirrored in it. It is not so much that we enjoy the Well-tempered Clavichord as that we are edified by it. Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter—to all these it gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
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“谱曲者早已代代作古，一页页乐谱也不容辩驳——我所奏的不过是作为美的记忆，是美的消逝。在爵士乐中，乐手们总期待着下一个瞬间的奇迹。而在古典音乐的现场，视角颠倒了。正因它早已不是当下的事件，而是对某刻往昔的在线，使每个瞬间都变得珍贵、迫切起来。一个个音符在触及我们心灵的刹那，又一个接一个成为过去。过去接连着流向过去，直至聆听的尽头；我们就这样在时间的悬置中，完成了对回忆的致敬。所谓现场，不就是这样一种关乎“消逝”的艺术吗？”
― 演奏之外
― 演奏之外
