July 2016 Issue Tim Blanning Composing His Thoughts The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’ By Roger Scruton 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
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
April 2006 Issue Roger Scruton A Quest For Truth Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring By Mark Berry LR
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