Instrumental
Subtitle: a memoir of madness, medication, and music
By: James Rhodes
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781632866967
Subjects: Adult child sexual abuse victims; Music; Sexual abuse victims; Psychological aspects; Biography; Pianists
Description: James Rhodes' passion for music has been his lifeline--the thread that has held through a life of abuse and turmoil. But whether listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatized teenager or discovering a Bach adagio while in a hospital ward, he survived his demons by encounters with musical miracles. These--along with a chance encounter with a stranger--inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. Instrumental is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken, and surprisingly funny--shot through with a mordant wit, even in its darkest moments. It's also an impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, weaving in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd 2015"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: Track one: Bach, 'Goldberg variations', Aria (Glenn Gould, piano); title: Track two: Prokofiev, Piano concerto no. 2, finale (Evgeny Kissin, piano); title: Track three: Schubert, Piano trio no. 2 in E flat, second movement (Ashkenazy, Zukerman, Harrell trio); title: Track four: Bach-Busoni, Chaconne (James Rhodes, piano); title: Track five: Beethoven, Piano sonata no. 32, op. 111, second movement (Garrick Ohlsson, piano); title: Track six: Scriabin, Piano concerto, last movement (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano); title: Track seven: Ravel, Piano trio (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell); title: Track eight: Shostakovich, Piano concerto no. 2, second movement (Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano); title: Track nine: Bruckner Symphony no. 7, second movement (Herbert von Karajan, conductor); title: Track ten: Liszt, 'Totentanz' (Sergio Tiempo, piano); title: Track eleven: Brahms, 'German requiem', first movement (Herbert von Karajan, conductor); title: Track twelve: Mozart, Symphony no. 41 ('Jupiter'), fourth movement (Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor); title: Track thirteen: Chopin Étude in C major, op. 10/1 (Maurizio Pollini, piano); title: Track fourteen: Chopin, Fantasie in F minor, op. 49 (Krystian Zimerman, piano); title: Track fifteen: Ravel, Piano concerto in G, second movement (Krystian Zimerman, piano); title: Track sixteen: Schumann, 'Geister variations' for piano (Jean-Marc Luisada, piano); title: Track seventeen: Schubert, Sonata no. 20, D959, second movement (Alexander Lonquich, piano); title: Track eighteen: Beethoven, Piano concerto no. 5 ('Emperor'), second movement (Radu Lupu, piano); title: Track nineteen: Rachmaninov, 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini' (Zoltán Kocsis, piano); title: Track twenty: Bach, 'Goldberg variations', Aria da capo (Glenn Gould, piano).