Our favourite books for music lovers to relish this summer.

How often do you encounter a non-fiction work about art that makes your mind spiral in so many directions?

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In his new book, Alex Ross walks fearlessly into the snake pit of opinion and, in his words, “restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian”. In this extract, he looks at Wagner, women and love.

The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.

Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.

The Chinese-American composer has been recognised for her "bold" opera Angel's Bone about human trafficking.