  :Thanks for writing. Cooke's reference to Wagner seems strangely ill-considered for so sagacious a musical thinker. What does 'Fidelio' do? What does the 'Matthew Passion' do? Cooke undoubtedly knew both works very well  as, equally undoubtedly, did Mahler  yet he forgets their 'progressive tonality'...  :The publisher of the booklet seems to be the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society.    