Oxford University Press

Wink's reading is broadly sympathetic and provides a compelling mixture of confidence and insecurity that was such a puzzling feature of Callas's personality. This is a gripping read - an engagingly... — BBC Music Magazine More…

With its wide range of topics, this volume suggests a positive direction for the future of Mendelssohn scholarship; it is a welcome model for 19th-century musicology in general — Choice More…

This book covers a wide swath of mate-rial, and it holds together well. The specificity of the early chapters feed into the large concepts of the later chapters. Deutsch has succeeded in creating... — Journal of the Audio Engineering Society More…