Boydell & Brewer

Intriguing . . . [and] lucid. An attractive bonus is an extensive online supplement — International Piano More…

This authoritative and intriguing book is both well-researched and generously illustrated. Erica Siegel writes with passion in an engaging, fluent and readable style. The book will appeal to... — MusicWeb International More…

Turn to any one of these entries and your understanding of why and how Brahms set a particular text will be deepened many times over...the book's value to interpreters as well to the much wider... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Now we can all appreciate these works afresh, with the useful and pertinent insights afforded by this welcome volume — International Piano More…

Immensely detailed, rich, and often fascinating anecdotal biography — Choice More…

Generously filled with black and white photographs, reproductions of programmes and musical illustrations, this handsome volume is an invaluable - and essential - contribution towards a fuller... — International Piano More…

Potter's scholarly and engaging book brings out the ways in which Satie's music...absorbed the 'sonic environment' of the city — Sunday Times More…

My Beloved Man is, quite simply, a love story...it is fascinating to read — Gramophone Magazine More…

Lockwood has made vital contributions to Beethoven scholarship, and in the present volume he offers scholarship about Beethoven scholarship. Highly recommended. -- B. J. Murray — Choice More…

[A]n eminently readable [...] volume — Musical Times More…