Books by Raymond Calcraft

This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigo's writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection reveals an outstanding critical mind, equally illuminating on the main developments in the history of classical music and its most important composers, from Bach and Mozart to Verdi and Puccini, and Rodrigo's contemporaries.

The greatest Spanish composer of the second half of the 20th century was also a writer of distinction. Joaquin Rodrigo, famous above all for his Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra, wrote about the works of many of the outstanding figures of classical music with insight, humour and eloquence.