Paul Roberts

From the Hubble space telescope that was launched with a malfunctioning device resulting in all the pictures it took being blurred, to the extremely late completion of England's new national soccer stadium at Wembley, history is full of examples of projects that damaged organisations because they were late, over budget, failed to deliver what they were meant to, or were...

A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. 'What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero's Baths?' – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have...

Amadeus. The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colourful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it—how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences, to explore the...

A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism’s piano superstar. Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music immerses readers in Liszt’s world through a vivid exploration of his most beloved pieces and the literature that inspired them—from Petrarch’s...