Recent book reviews can be found here.
Gater, Dilys | Summer With Bax | review |
John Georgiadis | Bow to baton | review |
Gedda, Nicolai | My Life and Art | review |
Kenneth Gilbert | Kettle of Fish | review review |
Christopher Gillett | Who’s my bottom? | review |
Gillies, Anne Lorne | Songs of Gaelic Scotland | review |
Goossens,Renée | Belonging: A Memoir | review |
Gramophone | The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008 | review review |
Gramophone | Classical Music Guide 2008 | review |
Linda Gray & Ian Partridge | Thinking Around Great Singing | review |
Greaves, Peter | In the Bavarian Highlands | review |
Green, Sharony Andrews | Grant Green – rediscovering the forgotten genius of jazz guitar | review |
Greenberg, Prof. Robert | The string quartets of Beethoven | review |
Greenberg, Rodney | George Gershwin | review |
Edward Greenfield | Portrait gallery | review |
Grimley, Daniel & Rushton, Julian | The Cambridge Companion to Elgar | review |
Grimley, Daniel | Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity | review |
Grimley, Daniel | The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius | review |
Gritten, John | Constantin Silvestri, A Musician Before His Time: Conductor, Composer, Pianist | review |
Raymond Gubbay | Lowering the tone and raising the roof | review |
Gundry, Inglis | Last Boy of the Family – A Musical Memoir | review |
Gundry, Inglis | Composers by the Grace of God | review |
Wim de Haan | Youri Egorov: His Complete Original Diary – Italy 1976 | review |
Wim de Haan | Youri Egorov: The Complete Discography | review |
Halbreich, Harry | Arthur Honegger | review |
Hamilton, Kenneth | The Cambridge Companion to Liszt | review |
Hancock-Child, Ro | Madeleine Dring: Her Life and Music | review |
Jean-Marc Harari | The Golden Book of Classical LP Records, French issues | review |
Paul Harris; Anthony Meredith | Malcolm Williamson – A Mischievous Muse | review |
Harrison, Max | Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings | review |
Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle | The Kaprálová Companion | review |
Stephen Hastings | The Björling sound | review |
Raymond Head | Holst and India | review |
Roger Hecht | Audition | review |
Heckstall-Smith, Dick & Grant, Pete | Blowing The Blues | review |
Julian Hellaby | The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist | review |
Helsby, Genevieve | Meet the Instruments of the Orchestra! | review |
David Hendy | The BBC: A People’s History | review |
Henley, Darren | The ClassicFM Friendly Guide To Music | review |
Alberto Hernández | Jesús María Sanromá: An American Twentieth-Century Pianist | review |
Gary Higginson | Gallery | review |
Paul Hindmarsh | Frank Bridge – The Complete Works | review |
Ho, Allan; Feofanov, Dmitri | Shostakovich Reconsidered | review |
Hodgkins, Geoffrey | Elgar: The Best of Me | review |
Hold, Trevor | The Walled-In Garden – The songs of Roger Quilter | review |
Holden, Amanda | The New Penguin Guide to Opera | review |
Holden, Amanda | The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera | review |
Holden, Raymond | The Virtuoso Conductors | review |
Maestro Glorioso | review | |
Barbirolli – A Chronicle of a Career | review | |
Holmes, Stewart Quentin | An Affinity with Gustav Mahler | review |
Bice Horszowski Costa | Miecio. Letters and postcards of Janina Roza Horszowska 1900-1904 | review |
Howard, Keith | Preserving Korean Music | review |
Hughes, Meirion | The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914 | review |
Derek Hudson | Norman O’Neill: A Life of Music | review |
Mary Christison Huismann | Gustav Holst: A Research and Information Guide | review |
Hulme, Derek C | Shostakovich – A Catalogue, Bibliography and Discography | review |
Úna Hunt and Peter Jaggard | William Wallace music album 1854 | review |
Hurwitz, David | The Mahler Symphonies – An Owner’s Manual | review |
Fabian Huss | The music of Frank Bridge | review |
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson | Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland | review |
Irvine, Demar | Massenet – A Chronicle of his Life and Times | review |
Irving, John | Mozart Piano Concertos | review |
Donald Isler | Afterthoughts of a Pianist/Teacher | review |
Jackson, Paul RW | The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold | review |
Erik Jensen | Debussy | review |
Johnson, Dr David | Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the 18th Century | review |
Graham Johnson | Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music | review review |
Schubert: The complete songs | review | |
Johnson, Ian | William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music | review |
Stephen Johnson | Discover Music of the Classical Era | review |
Stephen Johnson | How Shostakovich changed my mind | review review |
Stephen Johnston | Wilfred Brown | review |
Bryony Jones | The Music of Lord Berners | review |
Nicholas Jones & Richard McGregor | The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies | review |
Rufus Jones Jr | Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad | review |
Rolf Jordan | The Clock of the Years – a Gerald and Joy Finzi Anthology | review |
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason | House of music | review |
Kaufman, Louis | A Fiddler’s Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me | review |
Jonathan Keates | Messiah | review |
Keefe, Simon | The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto | review |
Keller, Hans; Cosman, Milein | Stravinsky Seen And Heard | review |
Kate Van Winkle Keller | Dance And Its Music In America, 1528-1789 | review |
Kate Kennedy | Dweller in Shadows: The life of Ivor Gurney | review |
Kennedy, Michael | Barbirolli: Conductor Laureate | review |
Kenyon, Nicholas | Elgar: An anniversary portrait | review |
Kitamura, Satoshi | Carnival of the Animals: poems inspired by | review |
Mark Kroll | Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe | review |
Judith Kuhn | Shostakovich in Dialogue | review |
de La Grange, Henry-Louis | Gustav Mahler: Vienna – Triumph and Disillusion | review |
Lamb, Andrew | Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora | review |
Lamb, Andrew | Henry Russell – A Life on the Ocean Wave | review |
Langfield, Valerie | Roger Quilter: His Life and Music | review |
Gianluca La Villa | La Sala Bianca Della Musica; the White Music Room | review |
Gianluca La Villa & Annalisa Lo Piccolo | Leone Sinigaglia – La musica delle alte vette | review |
Gerald Leach | British composer profiles | review |
Martin Lee-Browne & Paul Guinery | Delius and his music | review |
Lehmann, Stephen | Rudolf Serkin: A Life | review |
Leonard, Geoff; Walker, Pete; Bramley, Gareth | John Barry: A Life In Music | review |
Richard Lester | Girolamo Frescobaldi – A Variety of Inventions | review |
Michael Letchford | Softly Awakes My Heart | review |
Robert Ignatius Letellier | The Ballets of Ludwig Minkus | review |
Levin, Bernard | Conducted Tour | review |
Nathaniel Lew | Tonic to the nation | review |
Tim Lihoreau | The Classic FM Musical Treasury | review |
Stephen Lloyd et al | Music in their time | review |
Charles Long | Adventures in the scream trade | review |
Domenico Luigi | Alfredo Catalani – Composer of Lucca | review |
Richard Lysons | Were you there? | review |
Monica McCabe | So Written to After-Times | review |
David McCleery | Discover Classical Music of the 20th Century | review |
MacDonald, Malcom | Havergal Brian on Music – Volume I: British Music | review |
MacDonald, Malcom | Varèse: Astronomer in Sound | review |
McGuire, Charles | Elgar’s Oratorios: The creations of an Epic Narrative | review |
McLatchie, Stephen | The Mahler Family Letters | review |
Mackie, David | Arthur Sullivan and the Royal Society of Musicians | review |
Maconie, Robin | The Second Sense: Language, Music & Hearing | review |
Experiencing Stravinsky | review | |
MacRae, Julia | Wigmore Hall 1901-2001 – A Celebration | review |
McVeagh, Diana | Elgar the Music Maker | review |
Maeckelbergh, Lucrèce | Antonio Pappano – Con Passione | review |
Magee, Bryan | Wagner and Philosophy | review |
Malcolm, Noel | George Enescu – His Life and Music | review |
Maloney, Paul | Scotland and the Music Hall 1850-1914 | review |
David Manning | Vaughan Williams on Music | review |
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert | The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 1999 | review |
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs: Yearbook 2000/1 | review | |
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2002 | review | |
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2003/4 | review | |
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2005/6 | review | |
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs: Yearbook 2006/7 | review | |
Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski | The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2009 | review |
Em Marshall | Music in the landscape | review |
Andy Martin | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – From 1893 to the World | review |
Donald Maurice | The Leipzig Diary – Alfred Hill | review |
Luvy Mauro & Donald George | Master Singers: Advice from the Stage | review |
Ian Maxwell | Moeran – His Life and Music | review |
Melograni, Piero | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: a Biography | review |
Anita Mercier | Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist | review |
Meredith, Anthony & Harris, Paul | Malcolm Arnold – Rogue Genius | review |
Anthony Meredith | Malcolm Arnold – The Inside Story | review |
Milsom, David | Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth Century Violin Performance | review |
Minnion, John | Uneasy Listening – A caricature guide to 20th century composers | review |
Mitchell, Alastair; Poulton, Alan | A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances – UK 1923-96 | review |
Mitchell, Thomas J | Rosslyn Chapel & The Music of the Cubes | review |
Gillian Moore | The Rite of Spring | review |
Moore, Jerold Northrop | Elgar – Child of Dreams | review review |
Morin, Alexander J | Classical Music: The Essential Listening Companion | review |
Christopher Morley | Confessions of a music critic | review |
Morris, Edmnd | Beethoven: The Universal Composer | review |
Morrish, Joihn | The Classical Guitar Book – A Complete History | review |
Morrison, Richard | Orchestra, The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence | review |
Brian Morton | Shostakovich: A Coded Life in Music | review |
Walter Moskalew | Svetik – A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter | review |
MG Mota | Canto di Tenore | review |
The dark side of dawn | review | |
Thomas E. Muir | Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791 – 1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy | review |
Myers, Paul | Leonard Bernstein | review |
Nectoux, Jean-Michel | The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré | review |
Newman, Richard | Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz | review |
Nicholas, Jeremy | Chopin: His Life & Music | review |
Roger Nichols | Poulenc: A biography | review |
Philip Norman | Wild thing | review |
Avalon Nuovo | Orchestra | review |
Jennifer Oates | Hamish MacCunn: A musical life | review |
O’Carroll, Brendan | The Mammy | review |
O’Higgins, Rachel | The Correspondence of Alan Bush and John Ireland | review |
Osborne, Richard | Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music | review |
Osborne, Robert | 70 Years Of The Oscar – The Official History of the Academy Awards | review |