The first collection of stories in his brilliant list of accomplishments comes from born Japanese Malcolm Bradbury seminar graduate and Booker Prize laureate for “The Remains of the Day.” These five astonishing tales about the magical power of music and the thickening twilight are united not only thematically and metaphorically, but also by shared characters, forming an exquisite large-scale tapestry. Here an unlucky saxophonist undergoes plastic surgery, hoping it will set his career back on track; a variety star sings in Venice serenades to her own wife whom she has lived with for more than a decade; and a young cellist finds a mentor of an extremely original kind…