CRB Classical 99.5 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The station formerly known as @995wcrb. Great classical music for Boston and beyond. On the radio at WCRB 99.5 FM in Boston, streaming online & on app!

Inspired!: To the Moon and Back Again
David C. Thomas
This Sunday at 7pm, hear @chameleonarts in "How Silver-Sweet Sound" on WCRB In Concert! A Shakespeare-inspired program, listen to chamber works by @Thomas_ades, Korngold, Vaughan Williams, David Matthews, and Elgar. https://t.co/BwrYgClljy
Paperback, 2017
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetical Works III: Plays
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Today's listening: Mistral Music plays with the excitement of youth and the rich depth of age and experience in music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Felix Mendelssohn, and Gabriel Fauré, on WCRB In Concert! Listen here: https://t.co/htsLQxhdky
Hardcover, 2001
$410.00Member price:$410.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Light: Battle Between Good and Evil
Reginald J. Williams
If you missed this epic battle between good and evil, fear not! This Sunday at 7pm, on WCRB In Concert with @bostonearly, listen to dramatic cantatas with Amanda Forsythe, Teresa Wakim, Danielle Reutter-Harrah, and Douglas Williams: https://t.co/xuV8IBRhMa
Paperback, 2012
$14.50Member price:$13.77 + Free shipping5% off
Works: Prose And Verse Complete...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tonight at 8, @andrerap conducts the @BostonSymphony in Part 1 of Voices of Loss, Reckoning, and Hope, a mini-festival in three parts. Works by Uri Caine, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor are on the program. Listen live on CRB: https://t.co/m90Jr9oEoq
Paperback, 2012
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
Jeremy Eichler
@BostonSymphony @andris_nelsons @GoerneMatthias More details, including an interview with @BostonGlobe's @Jeremy_Eichler about Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 – which plays a central role in his forthcoming book Time's Echo: https://t.co/zJGGhrEnPS
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
John Eliot Gardiner
This week on The Bach Hour, now available on demand, hear Cantata 146, a work that originated as a now lost violin concerto, with John Eliot Gardiner and the @mco_london, and the Passacaglia in C minor on an organ that Bach himself played, performed by Gerhard Weinberger. https://t.co/A80ZsPiped
Paperback, 2015
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bach: Mass in B Minor
John Butt
This week on The Bach Hour, now available on demand, hear an intimate interpretation of Bach's English Suite No. 3 by pianist Nelson Freire, Cantata No. 37, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with John Butt and the @DunedinConsort, and more! Listen: https://t.co/C0ttawfE7T
Paperback, 2002
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bach: Essays on His Life and Music
Christoph Wolff
After being archived in Weimar and surviving two devastating fires centuries apart, Bach's cantata "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn" was rediscovered in 2005 by scholar Christoph Wolff. Hear it sung by @elin_manahan, on The Bach Hour, on demand: https://t.co/v7Oz6zo4BO
Paperback, 1994
$52.00Member price:$52.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)