Many listeners and players are fascinated by Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this wideranging and searching study, Professor Williams, one of the leading Bach scholars of our time, helps them probe its depths and understand its uniqueness. He considers the work's historical origins, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavierubung volumes and late keyboard works, its musical ag...(展开全部)

《BACH解密》是专著《时空重组——巴赫 新解》的总结与衍生。篇幅浩瀚逾百五十万字之巨的上述对巴赫《平均律键盘曲集（WTC）》的专论对这部历来被奉为“音乐圣经——旧约”的巨作中每一首前奏曲及赋格从每个细节到结构整体都做了十分精密十分详尽的分析。在研究《平均律键盘曲集》的过程中，笔者同时深入地感受并发现了隐藏在巴赫音乐内部的潜在秘密。这些“秘密”有些是前人已有所发现而被笔者进一步研究所延伸的；有些则是笔者独立新发现的。这些包含着巴赫音乐“内在核心机密”的内容对于任何从事音乐创作、演奏和分析的人们都会有帮助和启发，尤其有助于进一步深入地了解巴赫音乐结构组织的内核及其对后世音乐创作之重大影响，对当今音乐创作依然有积极的推动作用。 “BACH”是J.S.Bach的姓氏。在《BACH解密》《“BACH”解密》中，此四个字母一方面代表巴赫的音乐作品，尤其指作为《...(展开全部)

埃莱娜・格里莫（Hélène Grimaud）出身于普罗旺斯的埃克斯，如今生活在美国。十三岁，她经全体评委一致同意被法国国立音乐学院录取，成为该学院历史上全票通过入学考试的第一人。两年以后，她以拉赫玛尼诺夫的作品录制他的第一张CD并获得了“唱片协会”的大奖。在世界各地巡回演出的同时，埃莱娜・格里莫还致力于教育事业。她在纽约创办了一个教育中心――“野狼保护中心”。在她还只有十六岁时，大钢琴家乔治・博列特曾如此评价她：“我已经很久没有见过如此杰出的人物了。”

" Je n'ai aucune nostalgie de l'enfance. " Dès les premiers mots, Hélène Grimaud donne le ton de son étonnant récit. L'itinéraire de cette pianiste française de renommée internationale emprunte mille chemins buissonniers ; on la suit, de seuil en seuil, à travers son adolescence prodige, sa rupture avec le milieu parisien, son exil aux Etats-Unis, les doutes et la solitude à Ne...(展开全部)

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary study of the problems posed by the unity and diversity of the human mind. On the one hand, as humans we all share broadly the same anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and certain psychological capabilities - the capacity to learn a language, for instance. On the other, different individuals and groups have very different talents,...(展开全部)

Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark...(展开全部)

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy ...(展开全部)

In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text "The Phenomenology of Spirit". In contrast to those who see The Phenomenology as a closed system ending with Absolute Spirit, Jameson's reading presents an open work in which Hegel has not yet reconstituted himself in terms of a systematic philosophy ...(展开全部)

In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative reading of a book that forms part of the bedrock of modern Western thought: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Whereas other writers have interpreted the Phenomenology as a rigidly closed system, Jameson discovers it to be a more fluid, open-ended work. Hegel's mind is revealed to be a...(展开全部)