Boydell & Brewer

A labour of love on [Gilmore's] part, more than ten years in the writing, and making much use of interviews with friends and colleagues. Clear and very readable — BBC Music Magazine More…

The Companion has clearly been a labour of love for all involved and it has paid off. It is elegantly laid out and illustrated with illuminating musical examples and photographic images. There... — British Music Society More…

[Foreman's] big Bax biography...is surely his central achievement...The book established itself at the outset as the standard work on one of the most important and least understood British composers... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Even franker than Slonimsky's 1988 memoirs Perfect Pitch: A Life Story. . . . Slonimsky was alert to piano gossip during his trips. . . . A genial wit. -- Benjamin Ivry — International Piano More…

Major literary figures are subsequently given their due, including Emily Dickinson, as set by generations of composers, and the currently undervalued Ruth Pitter...Highly potent are Dickinson's... — Gramophone Magazine More…

An essential work of translation, revealing a complex workaholic with practical experience of orchestras and conductors informing the attempt to define the creative experience — BBC Music Magazine More…

The first book to concentrate on a part of Purcell's output that was not written for the theatre. Schab's analyses are informed by a strong sense of how the sonatas sound in performance...[and... — Music and Letters More…

The book is a good read and its subject, as Gramit says, of 'genuine interest.' . . . [In] Ingrid Fuchs's chapter . . . we see the significance of the man. . . . James Parakilas's claim of Czerny... — Musical Times More…

[Kim d]raws on an astounding range of sources for her analysis, always rooted in historical sources (art criticism, music reviews, Liszt's correspondence and notes, and more) and convincing... — American Record Guide More…