I've been reading William Berger's Wagner Without Fear alongside Pat Gilbert's account of the career of everyone's favourite punk band, The Clash. You might think that a book on the life of a great composer with stacks of information about his key operas wouldn't have much in common with Mr Gilbert's highly entertaining tome, but you'd be very wrong. Both works are wonderfully gossipy, appreciative of their subjects both in terms of their artistic accomplishments and personal defects, and often very funny. Oh, and they're both easy to read: not an easy thing to pull off when you're writing about music and its makers.
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