September 2021 Issue Gavin Plumley Viennese Whirl Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces By Patrick Mackie LR
June 2020 Issue Rupert Christiansen Deus Minimis Poulenc: A Biography By Roger Nichols Poulenc: The Life in the Songs By Graham Johnson LR
October 2018 Issue Jonathan Keates Zadok Released Handel in London: The Making of a Genius By Jane Glover LR
October 2018 Issue Rupert Christiansen Sick Notes Schumann: The Faces and the Masks By Judith Chernaik LR
June 2018 Issue Igor Toronyi-Lalic Pianino Man Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism By Paul Kildea LR
June 2016 Issue Rupert Christiansen Sex, Lies & Piano Recitals Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
May 2003 Issue Patrick O'Connor Opera’s Renegades Puccini: A Biography By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Edgard Varese By Alan Clayson LR
April 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator By Solomon Volkov LR
December 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Nietszche Fetched His Silk Panties Wagner: The Last of the Titans By Joachim Köhler LR
October 2011 Issue Tim Blanning Clash of the Titans Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries By Peter Conrad LR
April 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Rhine Maiden Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
February 2009 Issue Simon Heffer A Bit of Pill Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music By John Lucas LR
December 2007 Issue Simon Heffer Encore, Encore Janácek: Years of a Life, Volume 2 By John Tyrrell 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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