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Robert Craft (1923–2015) was a conductor and writer. Craft’s close working friendship with Igor Stravinsky is the subject of his memoir, An Improbable Life. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival.
The Perils of Mrs. Eliot
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius
by Carole Seymour-Jones
May 23, 2002 issue
Only Collect
The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings
by E.M. Forster, edited by P.N. Furbank
May 6, 1999 issue
Sunday Afternoon Live
New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts, 1923-1987
ten compact discs of digitally remastered recordings, with 144-page book, 21 conductors, 18 soloists
May 28, 1998 issue
His Ewe Lamb
Wystan and Chester: A Personal Memoir of W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman
by Thekla Clark, Introduction by James Fenton
June 20, 1996 issue
Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest
Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525––1855
by Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque
by H. C. Robbins Landon
November 2, 1995 issue
Words for Music Perhaps
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Libretti and other Dramatic Writings (1939–1973)
by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, edited by Edward Mendelson
November 3, 1994 issue
Love in a Cold Climate
'To My Best Friend': Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1876–1878)
translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden and Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden
Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (1885–1893)
by David Brown
November 18, 1993 issue
The Furtwängler Enigma
The Devil's Music Master: The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwängler
by Sam H. Shirakawa
Trial of Strength: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Third Reich
by Fred K. Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
October 7, 1993 issue
Love in a Cold Climate
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
edited by Nigel Nicolson
November 19, 1992 issue
Great Dane
Niels Lyhne
by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson
October 22, 1992 issue
Lagoon Tunes
Five Centuries of Music in Venice
by H.C. Robbins Landon and John Julius Norwich
April 9, 1992 issue
Bali H’ai
Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds
by Carol J. Oja
A House in Bali
by Colin McPhee
October 24, 1991 issue
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