The Ring Cycle

Music was always Anthony Burgess’s first love

3 February 2024 9:00 am

A gifted pianist and composer, Burgess combined his talents in a superb series of music reviews, published for the first time in a complete collection

Letter signed by Wagner from an exhibition at the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden in 2013

As a writer, Richard Wagner was both sublime – and unreadable

22 September 2018 9:00 am

No one any longer denies the immense significance of Wagner’s musical-dramatic achievement, even if they find it repellent. But his…