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Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: My Life in Music (Antonio Pappano)

Insights and revelations abound in an essential read for opera lovers.

February 4, 2025
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: The Instrumentalist (Harriet Constable)

A ripping yarn about musical women afloat in Vivaldi’s Venice.

December 20, 2024
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Theodore Albrecht)

This vivid account transports you to 19th-century Vienna.

November 25, 2024
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: The Shortest History of Music (Andrew Ford)

Ford’s non-linear storytelling weaves a multicoloured web of musical history.

October 21, 2024
Books, Classical Music, Opera
Book Review

Review: No Autographs, Please! (Katherine Wiles)

An entertaining insider’s guide to life in the Opera Australia Chorus.

September 23, 2024
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (Jeremy Dibble)

Dibble’s magisterial biography gets a centenary update.

August 19, 2024
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Book Review

Review: Performing Wagner (Stephen Gould with F. Peter Phillips)

A book full of insights from a singer taken too soon.

July 22, 2024
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Book Review

Review: The Players (Deborah Pike)

This theatrical novel is a rich and ambitious debut for Pike, whose earlier critique of Zelda Fitzgerald was shortlisted for the AUHE Prize.

June 24, 2024
Books
Book Review

Review: Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century (Leonard Slatkin)

Leonard Slatkin’s guidebook for maestros can easily be enjoyed by all.

May 20, 2024
Books, Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Book Review

Review: A Singular Voice: the Choral Music of Ross Edwards (William Kempster)

A rich, nuanced and detailed survey of Edwards’ music for choirs.

April 22, 2024
Classical Music
Book Review

Review: The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey (Jeffrey Arlo Brown)

Sensual and spiky: a compelling portrait of a deeply complex human being.

March 25, 2024
Books, Classical Music
Book Review

Review: Minna Wagner: A Life, with Richard Wagner (Eva Rieger, Chris Walton)

Behind every great man, there’s a great woman (frequently airbrushed out).

February 19, 2024
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Book Review

Review: Speaking Musically (Raymond Holden)

Revealing interviews with classical music’s great and good.

February 2, 2024

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