September 2015 Issue Gulliver Ralston On the Green Hill My Life with Wagner By Christian Thielemann (Translated by Anthea Bell) LR
April 2003 Issue Alexander Waugh An Unusually Gifted Composer Beethoven: The Music and the Life By Lewis Lockwood 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
August 2006 Issue Patrick O’Connor A Vision In A Dream Wagner and the Art of the Theatre By Patrick Carnegy The Ring: An Illustrated History of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House By John Snelson LR
April 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Rhine Maiden Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
June 2005 Issue Simon Heffer Fan of the Fuhrer Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth By Brigitte Hamann LR
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