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Roger Scruton is in many ways the ideal interpreter of the Ring -- Adam Lively — Sunday Times More…

In his weaving of philosophy and musicology into an explication of redemption via the vehicle of compassion, this is an unparalleled, sadly posthumously published offering. It is at once required... — Opera Now More…

Increasingly indispensable — BBC Music Magazine More…

An astonishing book, comparable only to the later Wagner tracts by Nietzsche ... essential reading for anyone seriously involved with the composer, and now we can read it thanks to a superior... — New York Review of Books More…