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A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday Times, History Book of the Year
Profoundly moving.' Edmund de Waal
A most rare book: extraordinarily powerful magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.' Philippe Sands
In Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and historian Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. While showing how four towering composers Shostakovich, Britten, Schoenberg, and Strauss transformed their experiences of the Second World War and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of music, Eichler proposes new ways of listening to history and coming to hear between its notes the resonances of what earlier eras have written, heard, dreamed, hoped, and mourned. A lyrical narrative full of insight, compassion and riveting storytelling, this book deepens how we think about
