The times when music was the reserve of concert halls and operas are long gone. Music is everywhere and in the era of the Internet, almost every concert can be copied at will. In this book, C. Bernd Sucher expertly leads the way. He presents his personal favourites from the history of music: From Beethoven to the Beatles, from Puccini to Edith Piaf. With much humour and a critic’s cumulative experience, Sucher explains why he believes La Bohème is the best opera for children, what The Beatles could do to a besotted teenager in the early sixties and why the Tristan chord is more than just a musical footnote, even for the musically uninitiated.
