Simon Heffer

Seven Symphonies Strong

Sibelius

By Andrew Barnett

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Deconstructing Harry

Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks

By Fiona Maddocks (a conversation diary)

Simon Heffer

Lechery, Libel and Lieder

Robert Schumann

By John Worthen

William Palmer

Music & Rum

Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba’s First All-Girl Dance Band

By Alicia Castro, with Ingrid Kummels (Translated by Steven Murray)

Ian Whitcomb

Tycoon of Teen

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

By Mick Brown

Patrick O’Connor

The Right Notes

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

By Philip Gossett

Start-up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1966–1976

By Paul Jackson

William Palmer

Before Elvis

And They All Sang: The Great Musicians of the 20th Century Talk about Their Music

By Studs Terkel

Patrick O’Connor

The Libertine Librettist

Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart’s Librettist in the Old and New Worlds

By Rodney Bolt

The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

By Anthony Holden

Simon Heffer

His Genius Preceded Him

Stravinsky (Vol 2): The Second Exile, France and America, 1934–1971

By Stephen Walsh

Roger Scruton

A Quest For Truth

Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring

By Mark Berry

Daniel Beer

Surrounded Sound

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

By Brian Moynahan

St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past

By Catriona Kelly

Simon Heffer

Fan of the Fuhrer

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth

By Brigitte Hamann

Rupert Christiansen

Hitting the High Notes

A History of Singing

By John Potter & Neil Sorrell

Jonathan Keates

Wolfgang’s World

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791

By Christoph Wolff

Charles Shaar Murray

Sympathy for the Devils

The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

By Christopher Sandford

Rupert Christiansen

‘Play Better!’

Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

By Tom Service

Rupert Christiansen

Quiet, Please

Discord: The Story of Noise

By Mike Goldsmith

Charles Shaar Murray

Purple Reign

Prince

By Matt Thorne

Irving Wardle

They Laughed, They Cried

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By John Major

Gulliver Ralston

Key Players

A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between

By Stuart Isacoff