An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)

Jarvis Cocker

An exhilarating shredding of received wisdom, provocatively casting pop music on the side of the stagnant and conservative – a bit last century – while stressing classical music's dynamic revolutionary potential … Morley remains a brilliant conductor – of music, of ideas, of inexplicable flashes of lightning. He knows the score

Victoria Segal, Sunday Times

In this boundary-pushing book, the music journalist charts his increasing immersion in classical music – not as a lurch towards “maturity”, but a recognition of its revolutions and revelations

Best Music Books of the Year, Sunday Times

His passion for centuries of music – both celebrated and obscure – is infectious

Irish Independent