Robin Holloway: On Music: Essays and Diversions 1963-2003 (paperback)

The composer Robin Holloway is one of the most provocative music critics of our time, whose trenchant views, always passionately argued and elegantly expressed, have acquired him a devoted readership. This selection of his reviews and essays covers the whole range of his interests from Bach to Wagner, and finds him falling out and making up with Britten, puzzled by Shostakovich and appalled by Schnittke