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Wagner Afresh

Hans Keller I Saw the World End: A Study of • Wagner's Ring Deryck Cooke (Oxford £6.50,£3.95) The Wagner Companion Ed. Peter Burbidge and,Richard Sutton (Faber £12.50) — rather......

Accolades

Rodney Milnes Tchaikovsky: The Early Years David Brown (Gollancz £8.50) The Operas of Verdi: Volume Two Julian Budden (Cassell £17.50) If the three-volume (or more) 'Life and......