Bookshelf

New and recent publications of interest.

Marina Frolova-Walker, Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale)

Peter Dickinson, Words and Music (Boydell and Brewer)

Markus Rathey, Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy (Yale)

Laura Kuhn, ed., The Selected Letters of John Cage (Oxford, out May 10)

Christian Thielemann, My Life with Wagner (Pegasus, out May 3)

Anna Beer, Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music (Oneworld, out May 10)