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Dinner with Lenny: The last long interview with Leonard Bernstein

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Oxford University Press

The love and wars of Lina Prokofiev

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Harvill Secker

A history of opera: The last 400 years

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The Classical revolution: Thoughts on new music in the 21st century

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The Scarecrow Press

Strings attached: The life & Music of John Williams

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The Robson Press

From Russia to love: The life and music of Viktoria Mullova

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The Robson Press

Do you dream in color?: Insights from a girl without sight

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Seven Stories Press

Mozart’s Grace

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Princeton University Press

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music: A Social and Cultural History

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Boydell Press

Robert Schumann: The life and work of a romantic composer

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University of Chicago Press

The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett

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Cambridge University Press

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea

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The pre-publication furore around Paul Kildea’s new biography of Benjamin Britten ‒ published in time for the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth ‒ reflects poorly on our lust for PR. Kildea was no doubt encouraged by his publishers to hype up a tendentious hypothesis that Britten’s fatal heart disease was due to the ravages of syphilis.

Camille Saint-Saëns and His World | ed. Jann Pasler

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Princeton University Press

How Music Works | David Byrne

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Canongate

Britten in Pictures | ed. Lucy Walker

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Boydell Press

Stephen Broad (trans.) | Olivier Messiaen: Journalism 1935-1939

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Ashgate; h/b £55

Owain Arwel Hughes | My Life in Music

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University of Wales Press; h/b £24.99

Charlotte Tomlinson | Music from the Inside Out: A Musician’s Guide to Freeing Performance

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Matador; p/b £12.99

Gary Kahn | The Power of the Ring

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Royal Opera House; p/b £35

Dominic McHugh | Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady

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Oxford University Press; h/b £19.99

Anthony Phillips (trans.) | Sergey Prokofiev, Diaries 1924-1933: Prodigal Son

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Faber & Faber; h/b £30

Donald Greig | Time Will Tell

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Thames River Press; h/b £15.99

Nicole V Gagné | Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

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The Scarecrow Press; h/b £49.95

Christoph Wolff | Mozart at the Gateway to his Fortune: Mozart at the Gateway to his Fortune

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WW Norton; h/b £18.99

Sarah Quigley | The Conductor

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Head of Zeus; h/b £12.99

Jeffrey Magee | Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater; Benjamin Sears (ed) | The Irving Berlin Reader

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OUP USA; h/b £22.50

Stuart Isacoff | A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, The Music, The Musicians

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Souvenir Press; h/b £20

Barry Millington | Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

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Thames & Hudson; h/b £24.95

John Suchet | Beethoven: The Man Revealed

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Elliott and Thompson; h/b £25

Conversations with Tom Service | Thomas Adès: Full of Noises

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Faber & Faber; h/b £16.99

Michael J Puri | Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation and Desire

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Oxford University Press; h/b £15.99.

Oxford Dictionary of Music, Sixth Edition | Ed. Michael & Joyce Kennedy and Tim Rutherford-Johnson

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OUP; h/b £30

Stephen Hastings | The Björling Sound: A Recorded Legacy

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University of Rochester Press; h/b £30.

Joseph Horowitz: Moral Fire

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Musical Portraits from America’s Fin de Siècle. University of California Press; h/b £27.95.

Raymond Head: Gustav Holst and India

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Sky Dance Press; p/b £12.50, e/b £7.50; available from www.raymondhead.com

Stephen Sondheim: Look, I Made a Hat

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Virgin Books, h/b £35