A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND THE WINGATE PRIZE'Profoundly moving.' EDMUND DE WAAL'A work of searching scholarship, acute critical observation, philosophical heft, and deep feeling.' ALEX ROSS'A rare book: extraordinarily powerful - magisterial, meticulously rich and unexpected, deeply affecting and human.' PHILIPPE SANDSA remarkable and stirring account of how music ac...

Un relato conmovedor de cómo la música es testigo de la historia y transmite la memoria del pasado.Cuando reflexionamos sobre cómo las sociedades conmemoran sus propios sueños y catástrofes, solemos pensar en libros, archivos o monumentos de piedra. Sin embargo, en El eco del tiempo, el galardonado crítico e historiador cultural Jeremy Eichler defiende el poder de la música de evocar la cultura, ya que es un arte excepcionalmente capaz de transmitir la env...

Se spesso la storia finisce per ridursi a una fredda successione di eventi e date, la musica spalanca una porta segreta su un racconto tragico intessuto di illusioni e dolore. Con l’orecchio del critico, lo sguardo dello storico, lo spirito del narratore, sulle tracce di Schönberg, Strauss, Šostakovič e Britten, Jeremy Eichler ci riporta ai giorni del massacro di Babyn Jar, non lontano da Kyiv, e tra le rovine della cattedrale di Coventry; al principesco rifugio di Richard Strauss nel Sud ...

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, 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.Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second ...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the...

Un relato conmovedor de cómo la música es testigo de la historia y transmite la memoria del pasado.Cuando reflexionamos sobre cómo las sociedades conmemoran sus propios sueños y catástrofes, solemos pensar en libros, archivos o monumentos de piedra. Sin embargo, en El eco del tiempo, el galardonado crítico e historiador cultural Jeremy Eichler defiende el poder de la música de evocar la cultura, ya que es un arte excepcionalmente capaz de transmitir la env...