Boydell & Brewer

New Perspectives on Handel's Music presents a touching, well-deserved tribute to Burrows and his distinguished career as a preeminent Handel scholar — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

A rich, closely packed book — The Times More…

Constantly illuminating — Gramophone Magazine More…

Hugh Macdonald's 'biography of a year' is positively postmodern in the way it dissolves its documentary sources into a smoothly running narrative that relishes and thereby transcends the archaic... — Musical Times More…

Indispensable for anyone wanting to quickly discover useful facts and scholarly information about every conceivable Ramellian subject . . . The compendium is a monumental dissemination of scholarship... — Gramophone Magazine More…

[A] compendious collection of interviews — Sunday Times More…

Given the current direction of travel of global politics, this wide-ranging and fascinating survey has a particular timely quality to it. A collaboration between a music historian and a historian... — Sunday Times More…

An immensely stimulating and readable book, raising many interesting and ever-relevant questions concerning the nature of music biography and criticism, and how they are affected by extra-musical... — Musical Times More…

Kreitner's book with its characteristic lucidity and engaging style fills a very important space on our bookshelf. It is both scholarly and extremely readable — Choir & Organ More…