Robert Riggs

Casts a wide net. There are chapters on violins and violinists in literature, the violin's association with death and the devil, recordings as documentation of performance practice, and the... — American Record GuideMore…

Informative and welcome introduction to a composer who balanced modernist leanings with an instinctive sense of the romantic. -- Michael Quinn and chosen as an Editor's Choice book of 2011 — Classical MusicMore…