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ABRSM ABRSM Performers’ Guides Peter Grahame Woolf
Richard Adeney Flute - an autobiography
Garry Humphreys
Adlington, Robert Louis Andriessen: De Staat
Ainger, Michael Gilbert & Sullivan Raymond Walker
Aldous, Richard Tunes of Glory - The Life of Malcolm Sargent Christopher Fifield
Stephen Lloyd
Allen, Kevin August Jaeger: Portrait of Nimrod Christopher Fifield
Amory, Mark Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric Lewis Foreman
Anderson, Keith (ed.) The A to Z of Classical Music Ian Lace
Anderson, Martin (ed.) Klemperer On Music: Shavings from a Musician's Workbench Gerald Fenech
Appelo, Tim Ally McBeal - The Official Guide Ian Lace
Appleby, David P Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-bibliography Rob Barnett
Arnold, Elsie; Baldauf-Berdes, Jane Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen: Eighteenth-Century Composer, Violinist and Businesswoman
Ashbee, Andrew The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins: Volume 1, The Fantasias for Viols
Atkins, Harold; Newman, Archie Beecham Stores Ian Lace
Badura-Skoda, Paul Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard Kirk McElhearn
Bailey, Walter B; Bailey, Nancy Radie Britain - A Bio-bibliography Rob Barnett
Barber, David W A Musician's Dictionary Ian Lace
Barber, David W Getting a Handel on Messiah Ian Lace
Barber, David W When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught David Dyer
Barlow, Michael Whom the Gods Love - the Life and Music of George Butterworth Arthur Butterworth
Andrew Barnett Sibelius
Bashford, Christina; Langley, Leanne (ed.) Music and British Culture 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich Phil Scowcroft
Balthazar, Scott L The Cambridge Companion to Verdi
Benson, David Music - a Mathematical Offering
Raymond Walker
de Bernières, Louis Captain Corelli's Mandolin Ian Lace
Berry, Mark Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring
Bessette, Roland Mario Lanza - Tenor in Exile Ian Lace
Bird, John Percy Grainger Ian Lace
Björling, Anna-Lisa; Farkas, Andrew Jussi Ian Lace
Blackburn, Philip Enclosure 3: Harry Partch
Blake, Eric Charles Wars, Dictators and the Gramophone 1898-1945
Bledsoe, Robert Henry Fothergill Chorley: Victorian Journalist Raymond Walker
Colin Booth Did Bach really mean that?
Boult, Adrian Boult On Music Arthur Butterworth
British Music Society Journal Vol. 24 John France
British Music Society Journal Vol. 26
British Music Society Journal Vol. 27
Marguerite and Terry Broadbent  Leginska: Forgotten Genius of Music.
John France
Brown, David Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music 
Brown, Malcolm A Shostakovich Casebook
Budd, Vincent An Introduction to the Life and Work of Sir Granville Bantock Arthur Butterworth & Gary Dalkin
Burrows, Donald The Cambridge Companion to Handel
Burton, Humphrey; Murray, Maureen Walton: The Romantic Loner Chris Fifield
Butterworth, Neil The Music of Aaron Copland Ian Lace
Cairns, David Berlioz Arthur Baker
Campion, Paul Ferrier: A Career Recorded
Carley, Lionel Edvard Grieg in England
Carroll, Brendan The Last Prodigy - A Biography of Korngold Ian Lace
David Chandler (ed) The First Lives of Alfredo Catalani
Charlton, David The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Cheer, Clarissa Lablache
The Great Lablache Margarida Mota-Bull
Robert Farr
Chilton, John Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz Giant Don Mather
Chlupaty, Richard Antal Dorati and the joy of making music
Clark, Caryl (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Haydn
Cody, Judith Vivian Fine: A Bio-bibliography Rob Barnett
Coffin, Barton Coffin’s Sound of Singing
Connock, Stephen; Vaughan Williams, Ursula & Wells, Robin (eds) There Was a Time: Ralph Vaughan Williams - A pictorial journey
Contemporary Music Network Changing Platforms Peter Grahame Woolf
Cotton, Maggie Wrong Sex, Wrong Instrument

Rob Barnett
Paul Serotsky
Arthur Butterworth

Couling, Della Ferruccio Busoni: A Musical Ishmael
Craggs, Stewart (ed.) Peter Maxwell Davies: Source Book Chris Thomas
Craggs, Stewart R Alan Bush - A Source Book
Max Cryer

Love Me Tender – The Stories behind the world’s best-loved songs

Dallapiccola, Luigi On Opera David Wright
Daniel, Estelle The Art Of Gormenghast: The Making of a Television Fantasy Ian Lace
Delphian Organs of Edinburgh
Deutsch, Didier C Musichound Soundtracks Jeffrey Wheeler
Dibble, Jeremy Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician Chris Fifield
Christopher Howell
Dickinson, Peter (ed.) Marigold - The Music of Billy Mayerl Ian Lace
Dickinson, Peter (ed.) CageTalk - Dialogues with & about John Cage
Dickreiter, Alan Score Reading - A Key to the Music Experience Ian Lace
Downes, Stephen Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology Rob Barnett
Drayer, Suzanne Rhodes A Singer’s Guide to the Songs of Joaquín Rodrogo Robert Hugill
Dressler, John C Gerald Finzi - A Bio-Bibliography
Dressler, John C Alan Rawsthorne - A Bio-Bibliography
Dunhill, David Thomas Dunhill: Maker Of Music Richard Noble
Dvorák Society Rudolf Firkušný 1912-1994 Ralph Smith
Easton, Carol Jacqueline du Pré David Wright
Ebrecht, Ronald (ed.) Maurice Duruflé
Adrián Rius Espinós

Francisco Tarrega - Biography

Eustis, Lynn The Singer’s Ego: Finding Balance between Music and Life
Fabian, Dorottya Bach Performance Practice 1945 - 1975
 David Fallows and David Ellis (eds) Manchester Sounds (Manchester Musical Heritage Trust Journal v8) John France
Fanning, David Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Fifield, Christopher Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire
Fifield, Christopher Max Bruch: His Life and Works
Fifield, Christopher (ed.) Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier John Talbot
Fitzgerald, Carol & Harvey, Brian Elgar, Vicat Cole and the Ghosts of Brinkwells
Foreman, Lewis (ed.) Information Sources in Music Rob Barnett
Lewis Foreman (ed) A John Ireland companion
Foreman, Lewis & Susan London - A Musical Gazetteer
Foreman, Lewis Bax - A Composer and his Times
Lewis Foreman (ed) A John Ireland companion
Frank, Mortimer H Arturo Toscanini – The NBC Years Ian Lace
Fredman Myer The Drama of Opera
Gater, Dilys Summer With Bax
Gedda, Nicolai My Life and Art Ian Lace
Gillies, Anne Lorne Songs of Gaelic Scotland
Goossens,Renée Belonging: A Memoir Rob Barnett
Gramophone The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008
Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2008
Greaves, Peter In the Bavarian Highlands Arthur Baker
Green, Sharony Andrews Grant Green - rediscovering the forgotten genius of jazz guitar
Greenberg, Prof. Robert The string quartets of Beethoven Kirk McElhearn
Greenberg, Rodney George Gershwin Ian Lace
Grimley, Daniel & Rushton, Julian The Cambridge Companion to Elgar
Grimley, Daniel Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity
Grimley, Daniel The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius
Gritten, John Constantin Silvestri, A Musician Before His Time: Conductor, Composer, Pianist
von Gunden, Heidi The Music of Vivian Fine David Wright
Gundry, Inglis Last Boy of the Family - A Musical Memoir Arthur Butterworth
Gundry, Inglis Composers by the Grace of God Arthur Butterworth
Halbreich, Harry Arthur Honegger Ian Lace
Hamilton, Kenneth (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
Hancock-Child, Ro Madeleine Dring: Her Life and Music Rob Barnett
Paul Harris; Anthony Meredith Malcolm Williamson - A Mischievous Muse
Harrison, Max Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings
Heckstall-Smith, Dick & Grant, Pete Blowing The Blues
Helsby, Genevieve Meet the Instruments of the Orchestra!
Henley, Darren The ClassicFM Friendly Guide To Music
Ho, Allan; Feofanov, Dmitri Shostakovich Reconsidered David Dyer
Hodgkins, Geoffrey (ed.) Elgar: The Best of Me John Kemsey-Bourne
Hold, Trevor The Walled-In Garden – The songs of Roger Quilter Ian Lace
Holden, Amanda The New Penguin Guide to Opera Rob Barnett
Holden, Amanda The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
Holden, Raymond The Virtuoso Conductors
Holmboe, Vagn Experiencing Music David Wright
Holmes, Stewart Quentin An Affinity with Gustav Mahler Tony Duggan
Bice Horszowski Costa (ed.) Miecio. Letters and postcards of Janina Roza Horszowska 1900-1904
Howard, Keith Preserving Korean Music
Hughes, Meirion The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914 John Talbot
Mary Christison Huismann Gustav Holst: A Research and Information Guide
Hulme, Derek C Shostakovich - A Catalogue, Bibliography and Discography Rob Barnett
Hurwitz, David The Mahler Symphonies - An Owner’s Manual
Irvine, Demar Massenet - A Chronicle of his Life and Times Ian Lace
Irving, John Mozart Piano Concertos Rob Barnett
Jackson, Paul RW The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold Paul Serotsky
Johnson, Dr David Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the 18th Century
Johnson, Graham Britten, Voice and Piano: Lectures on the Vocal Music Rob Barnett
John Talbot
Johnson, Ian William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music
Stephen Johnson Discover Music of the Classical Era
Bryony Jones The Music of Lord Berners
John France
Rolf Jordan

The Clock of the Years - a Gerald and Joy Finzi Anthology

Kaufman, Louis A Fiddler’s Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me Paul Shoemaker
Keefe, Simon (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
Keller, Hans; Cosman, Milein Stravinsky Seen And Heard Andrew Seivewright
Kate Van Winkle Keller Dance And Its Music In America, 1528-1789
Kennedy, Michael Barbirolli: Conductor Laureate
Kenyon, Nicholas Elgar: An anniversary portrait
Kitamura, Satoshi Carnival of the Animals: poems inspired by
Judith Kuhn Shostakovich in Dialogue
Gavin Dixon
de La Grange, Henry-Louis Gustav Mahler: Vienna - Triumph and Disillusion Marc Bridle
Lamb, Andrew Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora Raymond Walker
Lamb, Andrew Henry Russell - A Life on the Ocean Wave
Langfield, Valerie Roger Quilter: His Life and Music John Talbot
Gianluca La Villa

La Sala Bianca Della Musica; the White Music Room

Lehmann, Stephen Rudolf Serkin: A Life Paul Shoemaker
Leonard, Geoff; Walker, Pete; Bramley, Gareth John Barry: A Life In Music Paul Tonks
Levin, Bernard Conducted Tour Len Mullenger
Domenico Luigi
Alfredo Catalani - Composer of Lucca
David McCleery Discover Classical Music of the 20th Century
MacDonald, Malcom (ed.) Havergal Brian on Music - Volume I: British Music Ian Lace
MacDonald, Malcom Varèse: Astronomer in Sound  John Leeman
McGuire, Charles Elgar's Oratorios: The creations of an Epic Narrative Jonathan Woolf
McLatchie, Stephen The Mahler Family Letters
Mackie, David Arthur Sullivan and the Royal Society of Musicians
Maconie, Robin The Second Sense: Language, Music & Hearing Robert Hugill
MacRae, Julia (ed.) Wigmore Hall 1901-2001 - A Celebration Christopher Fifield
McVeagh, Diana Elgar the Music Maker
Maeckelbergh, Lucrèce Antonio Pappano - Con Passione
Magee, Bryan Wagner and Philosophy Arthur Baker
Malcolm, Noel George Enescu - His Life and Music Ian Lace
Maloney, Paul Scotland and the Music Hall 1850-1914
David Manning

Vaughan Williams on Music

March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 1999 Arthur Baker
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs: Yearbook 2000/1 Arthur Baker
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2002 Rob Barnett
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2003/4 Rob Barnett
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs 2005/6
March, Ivan; Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs: Yearbook 2006/7
Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2009
Donald Maurice (ed.) The Leipzig Diary - Alfred Hill
Dr Rita Crews
Melograni, Piero Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: a Biography
Anita Mercier Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist
Meredith, Anthony & Harris, Paul Malcolm Arnold - Rogue Genius
Milsom, David Theory and Practice in Late Nineteenth Century Violin Performance
Minnion, John Uneasy Listening - A caricature guide to 20th century composers Rob Barnett
Mitchell, Alastair; Poulton, Alan (eds) A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances - UK 1923-96 Christopher Fifield
Mitchell, Thomas J Rosslyn Chapel & The Music of the Cubes
Moore, Jerold Northrop Elgar – Child of Dreams
Morin, Alexander J Classical Music: The Essential Listening Companion Rob Barnett
Morris, Edmnd Beethoven: The Universal Composer
Morrish, Joihn The Classical Guitar Book - A Complete History Andy Daly
Morrison, Richard Orchestra, The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence
MG Mota Canto di Tenore
Thomas E. Muir Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791 - 1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy
Myers, Paul Leonard Bernstein Ian Lace
Nectoux, Jean-Michel The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns and
Gabriel Fauré
Newman, Richard Alma Rose: Vienna to Auschwitz Tony Duggan
Nicholas, Jeremy Chopin: His Life & Music
O'Carroll, Brendan The Mammy Ian Lace
O'Higgins, Rachel (ed.) The Correspondence of Alan Bush and John Ireland
Osborne, Richard Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music Gerald Fenech
Osborne, Robert 70 Years Of The Oscar - The Official History of the Academy Awards Ian Lace
Andrew Palmer Composing in words: William Alwyn on his Art (Musicians on Music: Volume 9)
John France
Parlett, Graham A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax Rob Barnett
Parrott, Ian Parrotticisms Hubert Culot
Parsonage, Catherine The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935
Parsons, James (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Payne, Andrew

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6 in G minor (score)
Peppercorn, Lisa M Villa-Lobos - His letters translated and edited David Wright
Petsalis-Diomidis, Nicholas The Unknown Callas, the Greek Years David Wright
Piggott, Patrick Eight Preludes & A Postlude (score)
Patrick Piggott The Innocent Diversion Phillip Scowcroft
Pike, Lionel Vaughan Williams and the Symphony Rob Barnett
Pilkington, Michael British Solo Song: A Guide John Talbot
Polisi, Dr. Joseph W American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman
Rob Barnett
Ponsonby, Robert Musical Heroes: a personal view of music and the musical world over sixty years
Garry Humphreys
Poulton, Alan A Dictionary-Catalog Of Modern British Composers Rob Barnett
Powell, Ardal The Yale Musical Instrument Series: The Flute
Powrie, Phil; Stilwell, Robin (eds) Changing Tunes: The Use Of Pre-Existing Music In
Film
Previn, Andre No Minor Chords - My Days in Hollywood Len Mullenger
John Purser Scotland's Music
John Purser Erik Chisholm, Scottish Modernist 1904-1965 ‘Chasing a Restless Muse’
John France
Quine, Hector Guitar Technique: Intermediate to Advanced Roy Brewer
Rattray, David Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making Jonathan Woolf
Reed, John The Schubert Song Companion Kirk McElhearn
Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke (eds) Letters from a life (Britten letters v5)
Sarah Reichardt Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich
 Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke (eds) Letters from a life (Britten vol 5)
Richards, Fiona The Music of John Ireland Colin Scott-Sutherland
Ian Lace
Riley, Malcolm The Percy Whitlock Companion
Robinson, Suzanne (ed.) Michael Tippett: Music and Literature Gary Higginson
Rodmell, Paul Charles Villers Stanford Chris Fifield
Christopher Howell
Rosen, Charles Piano Notes - The Hidden World of the Pianist Paul Shoemaker
Alex Ross The Rest is Noise
Rostal, Max Beethoven: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Rozsa-Lovett, Suzanne The Aamdeus: Forty Years in Pictures and Words
Runcie, Ian Alberich and Friends
Julian Rushton Let Beauty Awake
Matthew Rye (ed)

1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

Sadie, Julie Anne (ed.) Companion to Baroque Music Kirk McElhearn
Sadie, Stanley Collins Classical Music Encyclopedia Ian Lace
Samuel, Claude Olivier Messiaen – Music and Colour Ian Lace
Sant, John Albert Ketelbèy: From the Sanctuary of his Heart Phil Scowcroft
Schelle, Michael The Score - Interviews with Film Composers Ian Lace
Scherer, Barrymore Laurence

A History of American Classical Music

Scott, NK Would you care to say something? The thirty year story of a successful music society Len Mullenger
Scott-Sutherland, Colin (ed.) Ideala: The Love Letters and Poems of Arnold Bax
Rob Barnett
Stephen Lloyd
Scott-Sutherland, Colin (ed.) Ronald Stevenson: The Man and his Music
Searight, John To Live for you! To Die for you! - The Life of Gustav Mahler
Patrick Lam
Self, Geoffrey The Music Of EJ Moeran Arthur Butterworth
Senici, Emanuele The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
Siblin, Eric The Cello Suites David Barker
Siepmann, Jeremy Mozart: His Life & Music
Simeone, Nigel
Landmarks in Music since 1950 - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story
Nick Barnard
Simpson, Robert The Proms & Natural Justice Reg Williamson
Simmons, Walter Voices in the Wilderness: Six American
Neo-Romantic Composers
Slomski, Monica J Paul Creston - A Bio-bibliography Rob Barnett
Smith, Steven C A Heart at Fire's Center - The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann Ian Lace
Southey, Roz Music-Making in North-East England during the Eighteenth Century
Michael Steen The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
Brian Wilson
Stehman, Dan Roy Harris: A Bio-bibliography Rob Barnett
Tomas Sterner (ed.) Anna Shuttleworth
Garry Humphreys
Stokes, Richard JS Bach - The Complete Cantatas Kirk McElhearn
Stravinsky, Igor Orchestrations of Mussorgsky & Beethoven
John Suchet

The Treasures of Beethoven

Suchoff, Benjamin Bartok's Mikrokosmos Rob Barnett
Jack Sullivan Hitchcock's Music
Ian Lace
Swynnoe, Jan G The Best Years of British Film Music (1936-58) John Talbot
Ulrich Tadday (ed) Musik-Konzepte 151. Arthur Sullivan
Boris Tchaikov The Music Goes Round and Around
Theaker, Daniel A Working Musician's Joke Book Ian Lace
Thompson, Peter Carey Blyton Gary Higginson
Tilmouth Michael (ed.) Donald Tovey: The Classics of Music - Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected
Peter Shore
W. E. Timner ELLINGTONIA The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and his Sidemen Fifth Edition
Tolkien, JRR The Lord of the Rings Ian Lace
Toller, Owen Pfitzner's Palestrina - The 'Musical Legend' and its Background Rob Barnett
Tomes, Susan A Musician's Alphabet
Traubner, Richard Operetta Raymond Walker
Turbet, Richard (ed.) Music Librarianship in the United Kingdom
Tyldsley, William Michael William Balfe: His Life and Operas Raymond Walker
Clive Unger-Hamilton

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Valenti, Fernando A Performer’s Guide to the Keyboard Partitas of Bach
Vishnevskaya, Galina Galina - A Russian Story Len Mullenger
Vodjani, Sina Zarathustra
Walder, David E How to Stay Awake During Anybody's Slow Movement Gill Goodwin
Walker, John (ed.) Halliwell’s Who’s Who In The Movies Ian Lace
Walker, John (ed.) Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2000 Ian Lace
Basil Walsh Michael William Balfe A Unique Victorian Composer
Walsh, Stephen A Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
Walsh, Stephen A Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
Walton, Susana William Walton: Behind The Facade David Wright
Peter Watchorn Isolde Ahlgrim, Vienna and the Early Music Revival
Webber, Christopher The Zarzuela Companion Rob Barnett
Weinstat, Herzel; Wechsler, Burt Dear Rogue - A Biography of Lawrence Tibbett Ian Lace
Neil Wenborn Felix Mendelssohn - His Life and Music
White, John Lionel Tertis - The First Great Virtuoso Of The Viola
Whitney, Craig R All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters
Whittle, David Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books
Wightman, Alistair (ed.) Szymanowski on Music: Selected Writings of Karol Szymanowski
Richard Wigmore The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn
Williamson, John (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner
Willson, Rachel Beckles
György Kurtág: The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza 
Wilson, Conrad Giacomo Puccini Ian Lace
Wren, Gayden A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan Raymond Walker



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