Browse: Boydell & Brewer (publisher), Classical Composers

One doesn't need to be an admirer of Lennox Berkeley's music to appreciate the wisdom and insights which this most welcome collection of various writings has to offer. [...] Peter Dickinson is... — Musical Times 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…

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…

Griffiths -- who has published novels as well as many books on music -- strikes a distinctly personal note in search of his subject. . . a real labour of love. . . this is a book to read like... — BBC Music Magazine More…

[A] valuable reference book for scholars and performers — American Record Guide 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…

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…