Ken Russell is one of the most original, vibrant and groundbreaking film and television directors of the recent era. His finest films such as Women in Love , The Music Lovers , and The Devils are milestones in cinema history. Classical music is a passion of his and for the first time in these ‘novel biographies’ he focuses a literary rather than camera lens on the private lives of Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, and Delius - with no holds barred!