Cambridge University Press

a comprehensive, impressive overview of the music of the period in question ... Jim Samson has assembled an equally impressive selection of Anglo-American musicological minds to write it with... — Musical Times More…

with this work Mozart the man ... reads as real as we're going to get him, outside of his own letters. ... you're also not likely to avoid reaching for the book again and again ... This large... — Fanfare More…

The Cambridge History of Music Criticism is an incredible resource in a field where much formal research is still to be done, and it will no doubt be an important springboard for further studies... — Limelight More…