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lamom77's review
5.0
I started this book on January 1, 2023 and read and listened to it each morning. I learned a lot about classical music and I found some music that I absolutely loved - here's looking at you Hildegard of Bingen and the Danish String Quartet. I still don't like opera - I tried. I have marked about 100 of the songs in the book to relisten to over and over and will begin [b:Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day|59958235|Another Year of Wonder Classical Music for Every Day|Clemency Burton-Hill|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1640692484l/59958235._SX50_.jpg|94472593] tomorrow. What a wonderful book! Highly recommend!
asburris325's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
I really enjoyed this tour through a diverse array of classical music encompassing so many different styles and time periods. The author is knowledgeable and passionate and I learned so much about what I personally enjoy listening to.
jb16772's review against another edition
4.0
A great book. I finished it slightly before year end, as I could not wait to finish the last few pages and pieces of music.
I'm not giving it 5 stars as a little more guidance on the timelines would have been good. Timelines and links are not easy to follow given the relative random ordering of the pieces of music.
I'm not giving it 5 stars as a little more guidance on the timelines would have been good. Timelines and links are not easy to follow given the relative random ordering of the pieces of music.
balletbookworm's review against another edition
4.0
First book finished for #readathon (I only had about 150p left). This is a really solid one-piece-per-day devotional, if you will, designed to dive deep into the classical music catalogue. A few of my favorites are missing (Rhapsody in Blue, where are you?? Enigma Variations? Any ballet music?) but there were a lot of new-to-me composers to explore (starting right away in January with Hildegard von Bingen). Burton-Hill has also very consciously tried to make an inclusive list to try and get outside the white/male boundaries classical music has tried to keep around itself. What I think this collection is missing are some recommendations for which recording to listen to. Some more recent or less popular will have fewer to choose from but something like “Che gelida manina” from La Bohème will have hundreds available.
Burton-Hill has also curated playlists by month (if you’re not bonkers like me and pulling multiple versions, favorites, and complete works rather than movements and are making your own). Search for Clemency (with the blue tick mark) in Spotify or Year of Wonder at Apple Music.
Burton-Hill has also curated playlists by month (if you’re not bonkers like me and pulling multiple versions, favorites, and complete works rather than movements and are making your own). Search for Clemency (with the blue tick mark) in Spotify or Year of Wonder at Apple Music.
ilex22's review
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
5.0
Ich habe es nicht ganz durchgehalten, aber die Auswahl idt spannend, abwechslungsreich und inspirierend. Jetzt versuche ich es mit der Printausgabe der Fortsetzung
bickleyhouse's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
5.0
This book is amazing. I was given this for Christmas last year, and thoroughly enjoyed looking at it through the year, and listening to the piece of music that was featured each day. Ms. Burton-Hill did a fantastic job of curating all of these pieces of music! It's like Classical music "devotional, if you will. Each day features a different piece of music, some of them less than two minutes long, and some of them more than ten minutes long. Occasionally, a suite of more than one song is featured.
Each selection is informative, giving biographical information about the composer, as well as influences on them, and other information about them. As much as can be fit into a single page reading, that is. I learned of many, many composers of whom I had never heard before. Of course, there are very familiar composers, and my favorites were all featured, as well.
This book was a joy to read and really enhanced my classical music listening in 2023. So much so that I now have a Spotify playlist that features every single song that is in this book. That's a very long playlist.
Thank you, Clemency Burton-Hill, for writing this book!
Each selection is informative, giving biographical information about the composer, as well as influences on them, and other information about them. As much as can be fit into a single page reading, that is. I learned of many, many composers of whom I had never heard before. Of course, there are very familiar composers, and my favorites were all featured, as well.
This book was a joy to read and really enhanced my classical music listening in 2023. So much so that I now have a Spotify playlist that features every single song that is in this book. That's a very long playlist.
Thank you, Clemency Burton-Hill, for writing this book!