Boydell & Brewer

Editors Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke have managed to balance the many factors involving selection and annotation [...] with notable success — Musical Times More…

Read and reflect, discuss and argue: [the contributors] are mostly new to Britten studies... and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Gillian Opstad's tireless research has here produced a genuine addition to Debussy studies, based on the substantial correspondence between the couple . . . plus copious contemporary documentation.... — BBC Music Magazine More…

True to the ethos of contemporary musicology, Palazzetti worries away at the parallelisms between the work of composers and the lives lived within cultures [...]. The very particular specifics... — Musical Times More…

A superb, unique contribution to Ravel scholarship. . . Provide[s] both in-depth analysis and critical interpretation. SUMMING UP: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty... — Choice More…

This book is the first full-length treatment in English devoted to Joachim as a composer . . . [and a] sorely needed addition to the scholarly literature of the late Romantic period. Uhde does... — Choice More…

[S]hould provide a great resource for scholars, conductors, and performers interested in deepening their understanding of Stravinsky's concerto and his neoclassical style — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

This book is no eulogy compendium. Instead, the interviewees simply give us what we would all prefer to have, which is a diverse set of instructive, good-humoured accounts of their dealings... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Remarkable new study. -- Bayan Northcott — BBC Music Magazine More…