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Barry Millington is music critic for The Times and reviews editor for BBC Music Magazine
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Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung : a companion : the full German text with the acclaimed English translation... (1993) — Editor, Contributor — 159 Exemplare
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BBC Proms 2016 : Prom 43 : Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra [programme] (2016) — Programme note, Contributor — 1 Exemplar
BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 46 : Last Night of the Proms 2021 [programme] (2021) — Programme note — 1 Exemplar
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Wagner von Barry Millington
This is purported to be one of the best biographies of Wagner. Millington was certainly thorough with his warts and all approach. I'm not an opera fan and students of musicology may have a greater appreciation. Plenty of musicians are arrogant, self-important and wildly extravagant, but Wagner takes the cake. He comes across as a thoroughly unpleasant character who abused his friends, family and patrons. Perhaps he would have been more appealing if I liked his music, but the Valkyries can send him straight off.… (mehr)
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This book is both a biography and an introduction to the music of Richard Wagner. The author is the editor of The Wagner Journal.
A guide to what Wagner and his music and life were like. Love him or hate him. I love his music but what a cad.
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