Recent book reviews can be found here.
| Andrew Palmer | Composing in words: William Alwyn on his Art (Musicians on Music: Volume 9) | review |
| Sir Andrzej Panufnik | Composing Myself | review |
| Parlett, Graham | A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax | review |
| Parrott, Ian | Parrotticisms | review |
| Parsonage, Catherine | The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 | review |
| Parsons, James | The Cambridge Companion to the Lied | review |
| Andrew Payne | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minor (score) | review |
| Michael Payne | The Life and Music of Eric Coates | review |
| James Pegolotti | Deems Taylor: A Biography | review |
| Peter Phillips | What we really do | review |
| Piggott, Patrick | Eight Preludes & A Postlude (score) | review |
| Patrick Piggott | The Innocent Diversion | review |
| Pike, Lionel | Vaughan Williams and the Symphony | review |
| Pilkington, Michael | British Solo Song: A Guide | review |
| John Pitts | How to Play Indian Sitar Raags on a Piano | review |
| André Pogoriloffsky | The temporalists | review |
| Polisi, Dr. Joseph W | American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman | review |
| Ponsonby, Robert | Musical Heroes: a personal view of music and the musical world over sixty years | review |
| Alan Poulton | A Dictionary-Catalog Of Modern British Composers | review |
| Malcolm Arnold – Catalogue of works | review | |
| A Nice Conundrum | review | |
| Rooted in Northampton | review | |
| Alan Poulton and David Dunstan | The Film Music of Malcolm Arnold | review |
| Alan Poulton and David Dunstan | A Malcolm Arnold Companion | review |
| Powell, Ardal | The Yale Musical Instrument Series: The Flute | review |
| Powrie, Phil; Stilwell, Robin | Changing Tunes: The Use Of Pre-Existing Music In Film | review |
| Previn, Andre | No Minor Chords – My Days in Hollywood | review |
| John Purser | Scotland’s Music | review |
| John Purser | Erik Chisholm, Scottish Modernist 1904-1965 ‘Chasing a Restless Muse’ | review |
| Quine, Hector | Guitar Technique: Intermediate to Advanced | review |
| Rattray, David | Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making | review |
| Reed, John | The Schubert Song Companion | review |
| Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke | Letters from a life (Britten letters v5) | review |
| Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke | Letters from a life (Britten vol 5) | review |
| Robert Reilly | Surprised by Beauty | review review |
| Sarah Reichardt | Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich | review |
| Richards, Fiona | The Music of John Ireland | review review |
| Eva Rieger | Friedelind Wagner : Richard Wagner’s rebellious granddaughter | review |
| Riley, Malcolm | The Percy Whitlock Companion | review |
| Paul Robertson | Soundscapes | review |
| Robinson, Suzanne | Michael Tippett: Music and Literature | review |
| Paul Rodmell | Charles Villers Stanford | review review |
| Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918 | review | |
| Rosen, Charles | Piano Notes – The Hidden World of the Pianist | review |
| Penelope Roskell | The complete pianist | review |
| Alex Ross | The Rest is Noise | review |
| Rostal, Max | Beethoven: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano | review |
| Rozsa-Lovett, Suzanne | The Amadeus: Forty Years in Pictures and Words | review |
| Runcie, Ian | Alberich and Friends | review |
| Philip Rupprecht | British Musical Modernism | review |
| Julian Rushton | Let Beauty Awake | review |
| Matthew Rye | 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die | review |
| Sadie, Julie Anne | Companion to Baroque Music | review |
| Sadie, Stanley | Collins Classical Music Encyclopedia | review |
| Leo Samama | The meaning of music | review |
| Samuel, Claude | Olivier Messiaen – Music and Colour | review |
| Sant, John | Albert Ketelbèy: From the Sanctuary of his Heart | review |
| Joseph Sargent | Leo Sowerby | review |
| Dario Sarlo | The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz | review |
| Schelle, Michael | The Score – Interviews with Film Composers | review |
| Scherer, Barrymore Laurence | A History of American Classical Music | review |
| Tony Scotland | Fleche | review |
| Scott, NK | Would you care to say something? The thirty year story of a successful music society | review |
| Scott-Sutherland, Colin | Ideala: The Love Letters and Poems of Arnold Bax | review review |
| Ronald Stevenson: The Man and his Music | review | |
| Christopher Seaman | Inside conducting | review |
| Searight, John | To Live for you! To Die for you!- The Life of Gustav Mahler | review |
| Paul Seeley | Richard d’Oyly Carte | review |
| Paul Seeley | d’Oyly Carte: Decline and fall | review |
| Self, Geoffrey | The Music Of EJ Moeran | review |
| Senici, Emanuele | The Cambridge Companion to Rossini | review |
| Jenny Setchell | Organ-isms | review |
| Jenny Setchell | Organs and organists | review |
| Jenny Setchell | Enigmatic variations | review |
| Siblin, Eric | The Cello Suites | review |
| Stephen Siek | England’s Piano Sage – Tobias Matthay | review |
| A Dictionary for the Modern Pianist | review | |
| Siepmann, Jeremy | Mozart: His Life & Music | review |
| Simeone, Nigel | Landmarks in Music since 1950 – Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story | review |
| Simpson, Robert | The Proms & Natural Justice | review |
| Simmons, Walter | Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers | review |
| Slomski, Monica J | Paul Creston – A Bio-bibliography | review |
| Smith, Steven C | A Heart at Fire’s Center – The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann | review |
| Daniel Snowman | Giuseppe Verdi | review |
| Southey, Roz | Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century | review |
| Paul Spicer | Sir George Dyson – His Life and Music | review |
| Michael Steen | The Lives and Times of the Great Composers | review |
| Stehman, Dan | Roy Harris: A Bio-bibliography | review |
| Yrsa Stenius | The heart of Jussi Björling | review |
| Tomas Sterner | Anna Shuttleworth | review |
| Stokes, Richard | JS Bach – The Complete Cantatas | review |
| Stravinsky, Igor | Orchestrations of Mussorgsky & Beethoven | review |
| John Suchet | The Treasures of Beethoven | review |
| Beethoven: The man revealed | review | |
| Mozart: The man revealed | review | |
| Suchoff, Benjamin | Bartok’s Mikrokosmos | review |
| Jack Sullivan | Hitchcock’s Music | review |
| Swynnoe, Jan G | The Best Years of British Film Music (1936-58) | review |
| Ulrich Tadday | Musik-Konzepte 151. Arthur Sullivan | review |
| Benedict Taylor | Arthur Sullivan – A Musical Reappraisal | review |
| Boris Tchaikov | The Music Goes Round and Around | review |
| Hernan Tesler-Mabé | Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor | review |
| Theaker, Daniel | A Working Musician’s Joke Book | review |
| John Hugh Thomas | The Best in Sound and Form and Hue | review |
| Thompson, Peter | Carey Blyton | review |
| Tilmouth Michael | Donald Tovey: The Classics of Music – Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected | review |
| Tolkien, JRR | The Lord of the Rings | review |
| Toller, Owen | Pfitzner’s Palestrina – The ‘Musical Legend’ and its Background | review |
| Tomes, Susan | A Musician’s Alphabet | review |
| Stephen Town | An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson | review |
| Traubner, Richard | Operetta | review |
| Michael Trott | Hubert Parry – A life in photographs | review |
| Turbet, Richard | Music Librarianship in the United Kingdom | review |
| David Tunley et al | Destiny: The extraordinary career of Eileen Joyce | review |
| Tyldsley, William | Michael William Balfe: His Life and Operas | review |
| Clive Unger-Hamilton | Discover music of the Baroque Era | review |
| Valenti, Fernando | A Performer’s Guide to the Keyboard Partitas of Bach | review |
| David Vernon | Beauty & Sadness | review |
| Beethoven: THe String Quartets | review | |
| Sun Forest Lake | review | |
| Vishnevskaya, Galina | Galina – A Russian Story | review |
| Vodjani, Sina | Zarathustra | review |
| Deborah Voigt | Call Me Debbie | review |
| Walder, David E | How to Stay Awake During Anybody’s Slow Movement | review |
| Walker, John | Halliwell’s Who’s Who In The Movies | review |
| Halliwell’s Film & Video Guide 2000 | review | |
| Basil Walsh | Michael William Balfe A Unique Victorian Composer | review |
| Walsh, Stephen A | Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 | review |
| Walsh, Stephen A | Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 | review |
| Walsh, Stephen | Debussy – A painter in sound | review |
| Peter Watchorn | Isolde Ahlgrim, Vienna and the Early Music Revival | review |
| Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes | Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic and Musical Patriot | review |
| Webber, Christopher | The Zarzuela Companion | review |
| David Webber | The Music of Friends | review |
| Weinstat, Herzel; Wechsler, Burt | Dear Rogue – A Biography of Lawrence Tibbett | review |
| Neil Wenborn | Felix Mendelssohn – His Life and Music | review |
| Richard Westwood-Brookes | Elgar and the Press | review |
| White, John | Lionel Tertis – The First Great Virtuoso Of The Viola | review review |
| Whitney, Craig R | All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters | review |
| Whittle, David | Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books | review |
| Mark Wigglesworth | The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters | review |
| Wightman, Alistair | Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski | review |
| Richard Wigmore | The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn | review |
| Gavin Williams | Format Friction | review |
| Williamson, John | The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner | review |
| Willson, Rachel Beckles | György Kurtág: The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza | review |
| Wilson, Conrad | Giacomo Puccini | review |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Playing with fire | review |
| Roger Woodward | Beyond black and white | review |
| David Wordsworth | Giving my voice to music | review |
| Wren, Gayden | A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan | review |
| Georg Wübbolt | Klaus Tennstedt: Possessed By Music | review |
| Mari Yoshihara | Dearest Lenny | review |
| Patrick Zuk | Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Composer and his Time | review |
| Frits Zwart | Conductor Willem Mengelberg | review |
