A collection of critical essays by the combative music critic of the Saturday Review. Runciman champions William Byrd’s Mass and calls Purcell the last great English musician, then weighs the Bach Passions, Handel, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Requiem, Fidelio, Weber and Wagner.
Sharp, unconventional criticism from the 1890s that still makes lively reading for lovers of classical music. Download the free EPUB.