September 2021 Issue Rupert Christiansen Sounds of Sehnsucht The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder By Richard Stokes 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
April 2003 Issue Alexander Waugh An Unusually Gifted Composer Beethoven: The Music and the Life By Lewis Lockwood LR
May 2003 Issue Simon Heffer Spare-Time Soviet Prokofiev: From Russia To The West 1891-1935 By David Nice LR
May 2003 Issue Patrick O'Connor Opera’s Renegades Puccini: A Biography By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Edgard Varese By Alan Clayson LR
July 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Wagner In Love Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde By Roger Scruton
December 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Nietszche Fetched His Silk Panties Wagner: The Last of the Titans By Joachim Köhler LR
April 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Rhine Maiden Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
November 2013 Issue Michael Tanner Notes for Living Richard Wagner: A Life in Music By Martin Geck (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
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