Boydell & Brewer

Sara Itzig Levy (1761-1854)...made important contributions to her time as a performer, music collector, salon hostess, and patron . . . Scholars gathered from many fields illuminate her life... — American Record Guide More…

[W]ith its exhaustive archival underpinning and determination not to short-circuit complex issues, the book is unlikely to be challenged [...] for quite some time — Musical Times More…

One doesn't need to be an admirer of Lennox Berkeley's music to appreciate the wisdom and insights which this most welcome collection of various writings has to offer. [...] Peter Dickinson... — Musical Times More…

Christopher Dyment has produced a major scholarly work, one that is a welcome reference tool and adds considerably to Toscanini's profile — Fanfare More…

Major literary figures are subsequently given their due, including Emily Dickinson, as set by generations of composers, and the currently undervalued Ruth Pitter...Highly potent are Dickinson's... — Gramophone Magazine More…

[This] volume draws on a truly vast range of documentation [...] and is written in an unpretentious, descriptive prose [...] the coverage is impressive and its result will be of use in many... — Musical Times More…

Hornby and Maloy have successfully challenged long-standing assumptions about Old Hispanic liturgies and have provided a wealth of readings of its texts, enriched by a convincing appraisal of... — Renaissance Quarterly More…

Almost every essay is rooted in seventeenth-century Venice. Nonetheless, the editors have achieved what amounts to a landmark collection of scholarly commentary on the compositional, spatial,... — Music and Letters More…

Rauzzini is unique among castratos for having spent more than half his life in England. Rice is the first to tackle in detail the whole of Rauzzini's professional life across the 36 years the... — Musical Times More…