Hansel und Gretel, Royal Opera House The popularity of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel goes up and down like a yo-yo. After its premiere – conducted by Richard Strauss, who admired ...Read More
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times By Alan Walker Faber £30.00 727 pp Farrar Strauss & Giroux $40.00 There have been many biographies of Chopin, and countless studies of his works, but this is the...Read More
Mitsuko Uchida, Royal Festival Hall ‘Schubert’s music is between life and death; he dreams, with his eyes on the far horizon.’ With these words emblazoned over her programme, this is...Read More