Musical Times, January 1st, 2001
Ernest Warburton Scholarship and the media can often make for inimical bedfellows, but Ernest Warburton combined the one with little detriment to the other. For most of his career he was an executive with BBC Radio; but he was also a musicologist of distinction, with a passionate devotion to a composer - J. C. Bach - whom many would consider marginal. Early in his career, at BBC North, he revived many an operatic dodo, not a few of which benefited from the new lease of life, notably Puccini's Le Villi and Edgar, Wagner's Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot and Rienzi, Musorgsky's Khovanschina, Straus...
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