Cambridge University Press

a useful showcase of current Tippett scholarship ... a significant gesture to the future — Tempo More…

In elucidating its wider compositional basis, Straus has made a valuable and timely contribution to the understanding of a body of music which may in time impress itself on the wider consciousness... — International Record Review More…

Thanks to Dr Tatlow's researches, we now have a solid basis of fact for speculations as to the role of numerology, and in particular the number alphabet, in the music of Bach and his contemporaries — The Times More…

David Beard's new study of all Birtwistle's dramatic works is as impressively comprehensive and thorough as anyone could hope ... There is a wealth of new insight and information in every chapter... — Opera Magazine More…

A valuable, detail-packed, vade mecum to a body of work we are forgetting to our loss — Gramophone Magazine More…

a worthy contribution to our newly broadening view of this pivotal moment in European music — The Times More…