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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…

The subsequent, if short, correspondence ranged widely and they discovered common interests, folk music and the poetry of Walt Whitman among them. Perhaps Grainger's most astonishing claim is... — Fanfare More…

[The editors] reveal aspects of Grainger's art never before considered, or at least not widely known. Grainger's interests were wildly varied. Here we find him immersed in early British folk... — American Record Guide More…

All this fretful retrospection must have kept Malcolm Gillies, David Pear and Mark Carroll, the editors of Self Portrait, very busy. Grainger gave them half a million words of fragmented autobiography... — The Times More…

This is a delightful book. . . . What is remarkable about this book is its freshness: the vividness of Grainger's personality -- its originality, forcefulness, and impact seem undimmed by the... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

the release of this revised and slightly extended edition of John Bird's pioneering biography, first published in 1976, is welcome. Bird charts the course of his subject admirably, ... he offers... — The Times More…

[The editors] reveal aspects of Grainger's art never before considered, or at least not widely known. Grainger's interests were wildly varied. Here we find him immersed in early British folk... — American Record Guide More…

Gillies and Pear have assembled not a chronicle but rather a series of snapshots of Grainger at important points along his life's journey ... they have been remarkably successful in distilling... — Music and Letters More…