A collection of critical essays containing nearly all the concertos in the standard repertory, from Bach to Walton. The choral works include long essays on Bach's "B minor Mass", Beethoven's "Mass in D", Haydn's "The Creation" and Verdi's "Requiem" amongst other famous works. Sir Donald Tovey, best known for his "Essays in Musical Analysis", has also written "Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works", "Chamber Music" and "Beethoven".
- ISBN10 019315126X
- ISBN13 9780193151260
- Publish Date December 1964 (first published December 1935)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 226
- Language English