Wagner: The Complete Experience and its Meaning to Us
Paul Dawson-Bowling
Wagner: The Complete Experience and Its Meaning to Us is a colourful three-volume set that introduces, deepens and enriches the Wagner Experience for both newcomer and seasoned Wagnerian. Volume 1 explores Wagner’s formative experiences, aspirations and mentality, and his first wife Minna’s immense but unrecognised impact on him and his music. Volumes 2 and 3 cover Wagner’s operas (including his rarely examined early operas), expounding in colourful style the stories, the sources and the lessons of Wagner’s great dramas.
Uniquely drawing on a lifetime’s experience in General Medical Practice, Paul Dawson-Bowling brings us great wisdom, humanity and psychological understanding to his study on the life and work of Wagner with especial reference to the thought of Carl Jung.
Find out more > Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson – A Centenary Celebration
Edited by Oliver Chandler and Thomas Hyde
Born by the Thames marks the centenary of British composer Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013), whose long, distinguished and multi-faceted career produced many highly distinctive works in a voice that could be both playful and deeply evocative.
An approachable, thoughtful book for the musician and curious layperson alike, it brings together interviews and specially commissioned articles on Dodgson’s musical output as well as a selection of the composer’s own warmly erudite writings and broadcasts. These sit alongside personal reflections and anecdotes from his friends and family, and a generous selection of photographs, providing a rounded picture of Stephen Dodgson, the musician and the man. With a wide variety of his work, from opera to chamber music, now available on recordings, this book is a consolidation of Stephen Dodgson’s importance as a fixture in British music, both in the post-war period and today.
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