On Music
The Life Behind the Music: the Life Behind the Words: On Writing Poems about Quartets by Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn, in Eighteenth-Century Music, CUP 2022
‘Writing Beethoven Variations,’ Blog for London Review Bookshop, 12th February 2020
‘Beethoven’s Crisis of 1812.’ The Telegraph, 1st March 2020
‘How Strangely Fogo Burns: on a Madrigal by Thomas Weelkes,’ London Review of Books 2008
On Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos, Glyndebourne Festival Opera Programme, 2006
Piu Docile Sono: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Glyndebourne Touring Company Programme 2006
‘There are No Male Groupies: Writing I’m A Man,’ Guardian, June 2000
‘On Crete and the Female Voice in Opera’, London Review of Books 1997
Ruth with the Endellion Quartet at Daunt Marylebone, celebrating Beethoven Variations, in March 2020