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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

The Beethoven Mystery Case

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

by Jan Swafford

October 23, 2014 issue

Coming Back

The Exiles Return

by Elisabeth de Waal

April 24, 2014 issue

Love in Venice

Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach

by Philip Kitcher

January 9, 2014 issue

Letter

What Killed Aschenbach?

March 6, 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

Britten’s Escape

October 24, 2013 issue

Review

The Battle of Britten

August 15, 2013 issue