Book reviews

I am very happy to be asked by journal editors to review books and CDs. Here is a selection of reviews that I have written, with links to open-access copies of the published versions.

• 2022
  • Book Review: Music in North-East England, 1500-1800. Edited by Stephanie Carter, Kirsten Gibson and Roz Southey. Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000.  (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer 2020). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 59, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2022), 88-94. More …
  • Book Review: Musical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Peter Holman. John Cunningham and Bryan White (eds). Series: Music in Britain, 1600–2000. (Boydell Press: Woodbridge and Rochester, NY, 2020). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 59, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2022), 94-5. More …
•  2019
  • Book Review: Pleasing and Interesting Anecdotes: an autobiography of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1763–1842) edited by Deborah Hackert; translated by Stephen Thompson Moore. Lives in Music Series No. 12.  (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2017). In Fontes Artis Musicae: journal of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 66/4 (Winter 2019), 380–2. More …
  • Book Review: Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture edited by Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley, and Ian Newman. (Oxford: OUP, 2018). In Fontes Artis Musicae: journal of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol.66/3 (Fall 2019), 304–6. More …
• 2018
  • Book Review: Giovanna Sestini. An Italian opera singer in eighteenth-century London by Audrey T. Carpenter (Leicester: Matador, 2017). In Fontes Artis Musicae: journal of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 65/3, (July-September 2018), 185-7. More … 
  • Book Review: Musicians of Bath and beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his family edited by Nicholas Temperley (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2016). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 55, no.1. (Spring/Summer 2018), 65-9. More …
•  2017
  • Book Review: British royal and state funerals: music and ceremonial since Elizabeth I by Matthias Range. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2016). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 54, no.2 (Autumn/Winter 2017), 57-9. More …
  • Book Review: The Magic Flute Libretto: More Literary, Religious and Historical Sources and their Interpretation by Ian Thomson. (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014). In Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism. Vol. 6, No. 1 (2015), 133-4. More …
  • Book Review:Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain: Castrato, Composer, and Cultural Leader  by Paul F. Rice. Series: ‘Eastman Studies in Music’.  (Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2015). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 54, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2017) 64-66. More …

• 2016
  • Book Review: George Smart and nineteenth-century London concert life by John Carnelley. Series: Music in Britain. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015). In Brio: journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol. 53, no.2 (Autumn/Winter 2016) 56-59. More …

•  2015
  • Book Review: The advancement of music in enlightenment England: Benjamin Cooke and the Academy of Ancient Music by Tim Eggington. Series: Music in Britain.  (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014). In Brio : journal of the UK branch of the International Association of Music Libraries. Vol.52, no.2 (Autumn/Winter 2015) 62–65. More …

•  2014
  • CD Review: “Aux Mânes d’un Frére qui fut Roi” (1865): masonic funeral cantata for Leopold 1 by K-L (C-L) Hanssens. In  Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism Vol 5. No. 2 (2014) 247–8. More …

• 2013
  • Book Review: The politics of opera in Handel’s Britain by Thomas McGeary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). In Restoration and Eighteenth-century Theatre Research 28/2 (2013) 95 – 97. More …

•  2012
  • Book Review: Guess at the rest: cracking the Hogarth code, by Elisabeth Soulier-Detis. (Cambridge: Lutterworth 2010). In  Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012), 132. More …
  • Book Review: John Theophilus Desaguliers: a natural philosopher, engineer and freemason in Newtonian England, by Audrey Carpenter. (New York; London: Continuum, 2011). In Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (Vol. 3, No. 1. 2012), 130-31. More …
  • Book Review: Dictionnaire des marins franc-maçons, gens de mer et professions connexes aux Xviiie, XIXe, et XXe siècles, edited by J-M Van Hille (Paris : SPM-Lettrage, 2011). In Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (Vol. 2, No. 2. 2011), 349-50. More …
  • Book Review: La Franc-maçonnerie dans les ports, edited by Cécile Révauger and Éric Saunier (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2012). In  Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (Vol.3, No.2.2012), 298-99. More …