Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson studied at the Northern School of Music, Manchester, at Leeds University under Alexander Goehr then at Manchester University. Since then he has written regularly for The Independent and The Guardian, and was Chief Music Critic of The Scotsman (1998–9). He has also broadcast frequently for BBC Radios 3 and 4, and for the BBC World Service, including a series of fourteen programmes about the music of Bruckner for the centenary of the composer’s death (1996). He is the author of Bruckner Remembered (Faber, 1998), a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Conducting (CUP, 2004), and a regular presenter for Radio 3’s Discovering Music. In 2003 Stephen was voted Amazon.com Classical Music Writer of the Year. He has written biographies of both Mahler and Wagner for Naxos Books.

Titles read by Stephen Johnson

Opera Explained – The Ring of the Nibelung (unabridged)

Wagner – His Life and Music (unabridged)