Boydell & Brewer

Albright has written a literary essay of great originality and charm, appealing to undergraduates through faculty, general readers, and professionals in both music and the humanitites — Choice More…

This is a volume that every listener to or viewer of Handel's operas will want to purchase, and examine at length...Top marks for this reissue — Fanfare More…

The 'Preface' to Michael Reynolds's charming book begins with a pithy statement: 'This is a book about creation, authorship and relationships'. Thus, in a nutshell, he lays out succinctly the... — Music and Letters More…

Excellent scholarship is evident, yet the book is accessible and interesting to the general reader.. Haymes's footnotes provide a superb bibliography for studies of the Ring. . Recommended — Choice More…

Shed[s] light on some of the possible implications of such works within the larger political context. A refreshingly multifaceted picture of post-Rossinian opera buffa . . . that emerges as... — Music and Letters More…

Compositional histories' do not always address such intriguing and controversial issues...Woodfield expounds the...technical aspects of his scrutiny...with unfailing clarity...We are swept along... — Musical Times More…

No one writes better on Handel. No one has so sure a hotline to the whole range of his characters, in their strengths and weaknesses (and for Dean, the heart of the operas is character)...We... — Musical Times More…