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De la musique

Seiji Ozawa, Renaud Temperini, Haruki Murakami

3.84 AVERAGE

mattnauwelaers's review against another edition

3.0

Being an absolute novice on classical music this book introduced me to a lot of beautiful pieces and the inner workings of the genre. However, it made me miss out on a lot of the details as well

pennepasta's review against another edition

3.75

informative reflective slow-paced

wrengaia's review against another edition

4.0

So good. Full of love for the music & all around it

mjanssen's review against another edition

3.0

My rule is that I'll read anything Murakami writes (translated into English, that is). So of course I picked this one up. What I read about it before buying it gave me hope that there might be more discussion of jazz, and I was disappointed in that regard, since it focuses almost entirely on classical music. I don't listen to much classical and have almost no familiarity with Ozawa, other than that I used to work at a public radio station that aired classical where I heard his name on the air pretty often. This book has much more Ozawa in it than it does Murakami, to the point that it almost seems incidental that Murakami wrote it — possibly almost any other writer could have approached this task just as ably. But, Murakami certainly displays a highly sensitive ear for the music he discusses with Ozawa and gives an occasional glimpse of his own thoughts on writing and creation, as well as some typically inventive turns of phrase. And it has also inspired me to try listening to more classical music. So this was ultimately worth reading, but not really for the reasons a typical Murakami work of fiction would usually provide.