Before retirement, this great independent author/publisher worked for BBC Radio 3. In the spring of 1989, he took a month off to discover what was meant by glasnost. Nearly 40 years later, h... read more
A remarkable account of the author's encounter in Tasmania in the 1960s with the last Lord Talbot de Malahide, and his discovery 50 years later that his man might have been a Soviet spy. A f... read more
A short biography of Thomas Linley, the Georgian prodigy who was celebrated - with Mozart - by Burney as "the most promising geniusses of the age". But he died very young.
Raised in Nazi Germany, at 18, Wulff Scherchen was Britten's muse and lover. When the composer went to the USA during the war, Wulff was interned as an enemy alien and transported to Canada,... read more
Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, the last Earl of Seaforth climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton and entertained young Mozart in Naples while on the Grand Tour. His marriage to a fashion... read more
The subject of this slim, privately published and entertaining biography was a musician, a serial gambler, a wife-stealer, an undischarged bankrupt, and a member of the British Osmanli Caval... read more
An account of a meeting on a train in 1934 between the young Lennox Berkeley and Stravinsky. A beautiful private production from the same stable as Bazouker and Gradual.
A short and delightful account of three wonderful old birds - Coote Heber Percy, Billa Harrod and Freda Berkeley - who set off in a car with rather taxing suspension for the Peloponnese in 1... read more