Browse: Biographies, Classical Composers, Michael Tippett

[A] page-turner of a biography whose irresistible brio drills deep into a psychologically complex man, painting a portrait studded wit fraught emotional entanglements and passionately-held political... — BBC Music Magazine More…

A valuable, detail-packed, vade mecum to a body of work we are forgetting to our loss — Gramophone Magazine More…

Detailed and often illuminating — BBC Music Magazine More…

Academics will find a lot of their work ready packaged for them here. A newly-written chapter on the later operas typically abounds in information on Tippett's sources and should keep programme-note... — Financial Times More…

This is an important book, enriching with far more exact substance than had so far been essayed the common view of these two composers as talents in many ways complementary — Music and Letters More…

A valuable, detail-packed, vade mecum to a body of work we are forgetting to our loss — Gramophone Magazine More…