Patrik Enander wrote:

>This might be too wide a question but here we go.  My primary reading about
>music has been various magazines, mostly Gramophone, and this eminent list.
>But I haven't read any books about music, composer biographies, memoirs
>etc.  So I want to know if you can share with me a book about music,
>irrespectively of genre, that has given you a lot of pleasure.

Joachim Kaiser, Beethovens 32 Klaviersonaten und ihre Interpreten.  This
book analyzes the sonatas not only with the score in hand but also with
reference to a lot of interpretations by important pianists (up to, I think
1967, when the book was published).  If you have most of these and compare
them while reading further this gets to be a mighty interesting book!

Philip