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The Sea on Fire - Jean Barraqué Paul Griffiths "Barraqué's music is passionate and explosive...[Griffiths'] quest for the composer's development (and decline), both physical and spiritual, seems like a real labour of love...This is a book to read like a novel." - Adrian Jack, BBC Music Magazine |
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The Music of Lennox Berkeley Peter Dickinson “A marvelously lucid book which fills a gap on the shelves devoted to twentieth century music.” Independent |
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Elliott Carter: Selected Essays 1937-1995 Jonathan W. Bernard (editor) “Elliot Carter is a major figure who, from all evidence, has satisfied his desire to make durable music. That is his primary legacy, but these writings should prove hardly less lasting.” – Theory & Practice |
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Copland Connotations Peter Dickinson (editor) “An essential addition to the Copland bibliography as one would confidently expect from a project masterminded by Peter Dickinson, whose tireless and knowledgeable evangelism in the cause of [Copland] is deservedly well known.” Music & Vision |
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The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola Raymond Fearn "This is the first full length study in English of one of the major Italian composers of the 20th century...Fearn's musical analyses are lucid and refreshingly free of jargon...[This is] a most welcome book, written by someone who clearly loves its subject." - BBC Music Magazine |
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Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings by Arthur Hartmann Samuel Hsu, Sidney Grolnic and Mark A. Peters (editors) A record of a ten year personal friendship, with letters, and insights on other contemporaries. |
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Portrait of Percy Grainger Malcolm Gilles & David Pear (eds) “This expert editorial combination has now compiled a…fascinating collection of writings, this time by a range of people who knew Grainger personally and who…supply us with insights galore.” Delius Society Journal |
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Roger Quilter: His Life and Music Valerie Langfield “Thoroughly researched and meticulously documented… [The] attached CD…will add considerably to the value of the book as it contains all of the composer’s known recordings, the vast majority of them issued now for the first time.” John Steane, Gramophone |
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William Walton - Muse of Fire Stephen Lloyd “What makes [this] essential reading…is the formidable amount of information packed into a text that is always fluent and readable …Indispensible.” Gramophone |
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