Boydell & Brewer

Here is everything you always wanted to know about the voices we today call 'countertenor' . . . . It is a fascinating study — American Record Guide More…

Featured in the10 must-read books for Beethoven 250 — BBC Music Magazine More…

Sympathetic and intensively researched volume will do much to restore [Sir George Smart's] reputation — Musical Times More…

[U]ntil now there has been no extensive study of what the words set by Byrd in his 1588 and 1589 song collections really mean, that is, 'what they are,' apart from songs. Smith...offers a brilliant,... — Choice More…

Simon Holt is a leading presence in contemporary music...With a generous array of colour-plates and numerous musical examples, the book is a richly-textured resource — BBC Music Magazine More…

This totally absorbing account, fluently narrated and minutely documented with the help of the prolific letter-writing Wesleys, guarantees a sympathetic hearing for the troubled Samuel. It deserves... — Musical Times More…

Macdonald's curiosity is boundless. . . and he satisfies it with unfailing scholarship and wit. . . . He gives the most thorough account yet of Hugo Wolf's complicated critical attitude to Wagner... — Opera Magazine More…

[A]n illuminating and engaging volume, with discoveries not only beneficial for early musicologists, experts, and performers, but also for connoisseurs of early music and others curious about... — Early Music America More…