BBC Music in the Glock Era and After

Leo Black's memoir not only recalls 'the Glock Era and After' in a series of informative, poignanty, witty and judicious vignettes, but is also a key text for understanding one of the great ages of British music.

Leo Black was born in London in 1932 and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. Between 1960 and 1988 he was successively producer, chief producer and executive producer for BBC Radio Music. Since then he has written a series of essays on Schubert for The Musical Times (1997) and Opera Quarterly (1998) and a book, Schubert: Music and Belief (2003), for the Boydell Press. He paid tribute to a former Oxford tutor, with his recent study of Edmund Rubbra, Symphonist (Boydell, 2008). Christopher Wintle (Editor) is a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. His monograph on Benjamin Britten, All the Gods, was published in 2006 (Plumbago), and he has edited four volumes of writings by Hans Keller and a further two by Hugh Wood and Bayan Northcott respectively.