Browse: Phaidon Press (publisher)

It has been brilliantly done by Rudolph Sabor, whose achievement is magnificent. The clarity, detail, comprehensiveness and sheer usefulness of the volumes cannot be praised too highly. I sincerely... — Financial Times More…

Full of insights and contriving to tell us much about the music — Sunday Telegraph More…

Smoothly executed. The chapter on Cage may well be the best introduction to his thought and work in English."-Gramophone '...Has a subtle but insistently inquiring approach to biography and details... — Musical Times More…

DeCarava created this extraordinary book in 1962 in an attempt to produce "the printed form of jazz." And he succeeds — The Guardian More…

So much of the material is new that this book is a must for anyone remotely interested in the subject — Gramophone Magazine More…

A well-rounded, readable account. Makes a convincing case for putting the Beatles on the shelf between Bartok and Boulez — Sunday Times More…

Ivry's much-needed and informative Poulenc captures the French between-wars scene vividly — Sunday Telegraph More…

An excellent critical account of Gershwin's musical development in the social and musical context of the first three decades of the century — BBC Music Magazine More…

As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for... — The Scotsman More…