Boydell & Brewer

This is a very human story of a man who produced a small but treasured body of work which transcends the time and manner of its creation... Dr. Maxwell has added a major contribution both to... — MusicWeb International More…

What makes the book particularly worthwhile is its careful contextualization of the major fin-de-siecle revivals of eighteenth-century operas including abundant selections from critical discourse.... — Nineteenth-Century Music Review More…

A rare example of a book devoted entirely to a single, recent composition. . . . Show[s] how Carter manages to create a reliably functioning mechanism more than equal to the demands he makes... — Musical Times More…

Here is everything you always wanted to know about the voices we today call 'countertenor' . . . . It is a fascinating study — American Record Guide More…

[W]ith massive reference and exceptionally useful appendices, giving a fine, detailed background to the whole topic. . . . [T]he sheer range of factual information [Murray's book] provides .... — Musical Times More…

This volume is a crucial addition to scholarship. Being the first 'detailed and long-overdue study of Bridge' it will be of huge interest to serious researchers into his music. Added value here... — MusicWeb International More…

Takes a unique approach to Gioachino Rossini and five of his operas. The author puts the operas in historical context and argues that they could have been written only in a post-revolutionary... — Choice More…