Instrumental
A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
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Narrated by:
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Mark Meadows
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Written by:
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James Rhodes
About this listen
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.
©2014 James Rhodes (P)2017 Audible, LtdCritic Reviews
"Thrilling and harrowing.... Unsurpassed and unsurpassable" ( Sunday Times)
"There is an insight, often startling but always valuable, on almost every page...a tough, riveting read." ( The Times)
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- RFO
- 11-09-19
Hard-hitting and excellently written and read
This superb audiobook reveals the many challenges faced by a child in the willfully blind 1980s, the sheer adversity of growing up as an abused child, and the power of classical music to overcome - as much as is humanly possible - that adversity. Highly eye-opening.
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