Boydell & Brewer

These essays focus on the legendary performer in various media during [the years 1931-57]. . . This wide-ranging collection makes it clear that Crosby's importance is not and should never be... — Choice More…

Offers telling insights . . . [on the] linkage between teaching and communicating, teaching and composing. . . . Reach[es] to the core of Kurtag's essential expressionism. . . . [Kurtag's] tributes... — Musical Times More…

Gray & Davidson played a significant part in the development of the English organ... It is difficult to imagine better coverage of the topic than Dr Thistlethwaite's exposition — British Music Society More…

There are welcome insights into...how and why [the cantatas] were written, and by whom and for whom they were performed...a work-by-work description of each cantata provides reference material... — Musical Times More…

Balint Andras Varga is one of the great listeners in the recent history of music. Surging toward sound on every silent page, this book is a major document both of the century now past and of... — The New Yorker More…

The responses from . . . Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, and Iannis Xenakis . . . are as lucid an introduction to their musical preoccupations as could be hoped. Production values are as... — Gramophone Magazine More…

The detailing and readability of this magnificent book from John White, the doyen of the viola and viola literature, is remarkable...anyone with an interest in the English musical renaissance... — MusicWeb International More…

Compelling — Gramophone Magazine More…

A fascinating study . . . a book for the specialist with, furthermore, wide areas of specialism in both musicology and literary criticism . . . rewarding — SPIRITED More…