Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music, by Richard Crawford Benjamin Ivry is disappointed by an uncritically enthusiastic account of the great Broadway composer By Benjamin Ivry 31 October
Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, by David Yearsley Benjamin Ivry assesses an attempt to humanise the unapproachable genius of J. S. Bach By Benjamin Ivry 12 September