Liszt: The Reluctant Superstar
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
by Oliver Hilmes, translated from the German by Stewart Spencer
November 10, 2016 issue
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Liszt: The Reluctant Superstar
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
by Oliver Hilmes, translated from the German by Stewart Spencer
November 10, 2016 issue
The Meaning of Mahler
How much experience can a piece of music contain before it bursts apart?
Gustav Mahler
by Bruno Walter, with a biographical essay by Ernst Křenek, and an introduction by Erik Ryding
Gustav Mahler’s Symphonic Landscapes
by Thomas Peattie
Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas
by Seth Monahan
December 17, 2015 issue
The Weird Art of the Ordinary
All Days Are Night
by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
November 19, 2015 issue
Love in Venice
Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
by Philip Kitcher
January 9, 2014 issue
The Battle of Britten
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century
by Paul Kildea
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976: Volume Six, 1966–1976
edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke
Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction
by Heather Wiebe
August 15, 2013 issue
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