"From recordings by Douglas Riva for Naxos Records, under license agreement with Naxos of America, Inc."--Disc surface. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this riveting historical novel. Milton has vividly captured the life of Granados, a musical genius for whom recognition was especially elusive. With a striking sense of period detail, he glowingly evokes a distant place and time. The Fallen Nightingale is a luminous work, infused with a historians exactitude, conjuring up the cultural essence of Barcelona, and taking the reader from the coast of northeastern Spain to Paris, New York, Washington, and London. Miltons novel is a feast for lovers of art, music, biography, and history. Yet it has all the stuff of a potboiler: intrigue, romance and affairs, dynamic dialogue, disease and death, dalliances of the rich and famous, storms at sea, and the disasters of war. The Fallen Nightingale is a stirring work of uncommon passion. - Dust jacket.