Tim Blanning

Composing His Thoughts

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’

By Roger Scruton

Patrick O’Connor

Too Many B…s

Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten Vols One & Two 1923-1945

By Donald Mitchell & Philip Reed (eds)

Rupert Christiansen

Sex, Lies & Piano Recitals

Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Rupert Christiansen

Play It Again, Ma’am

Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

By Anna Beer

Gulliver Ralston

Beware the Shoe Removers

Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet

By Edward Dusinberre

Simon Rees

Hither & Zither

The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions

By Michael Church (ed)

Benjamin Ivry

Major or Minor?

Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World

By Caroline Potter

Anthony Burgess

Darkness & Dubiety

Music and the Emotions

By Malcolm Budd

Rupert Christiansen

Up in the Gods

Magnificence: Onstage at the Met

By Robert Jacobson

Stephen Pickles

Interval Talk

Richard Curtis

A Fab Musical

The Hired Man

By Melvyn Bragg

Charles Miller

Not Verbally Comfortable

Prince: A Pop Life

By Dave Hill

Stephen Fry

Grave, Dex, Bail and True

Pete Clark

By Hook or by Crook

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

By John Seabrook

Karen Krizanovich

The Tynan of Rock

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By Lester Bangs (edited by Greil Marcus)

Alwyn Turner

Pop Will Eat Itself

Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

By Peter Doggett

Gulliver Ralston

On the Green Hill

My Life with Wagner

By Christian Thielemann (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Scott Timberg

Dire Straits

How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?

By Stephen Witt

Daniel Matlin

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth

By John Szwed