November 2024 Issue Freya Johnston Oratorio of Oratorios Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah By Charles King
October 2023 Issue Jonathan Keates Bravo, Wolfgango! Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera By Jane Glover LR
September 2021 Issue Gavin Plumley Viennese Whirl Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces By Patrick Mackie LR
December 2000 Issue Simon Heffer Off His Pedestal Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life By Translated by Robert Spaethling (ed) LR
August 2019 Issue Stephen Walsh Keyboard Warrior Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary By John Clubbe LR
October 2018 Issue Jonathan Keates Zadok Released Handel in London: The Making of a Genius By Jane Glover LR
April 2003 Issue Alexander Waugh An Unusually Gifted Composer Beethoven: The Music and the Life By Lewis Lockwood LR
August 2004 Issue J W M Thompson Highly-Strung Hero Stradivarius: Five Violins One Cello And A Genius By Toby Faber LR
June 2012 Issue Jonathan Keates Wolfgang’s World Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791 By Christoph Wolff LR
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