Category: Reviews
Prom 63 – Bach’s Mass in B minor 2016
Bach’s Mass in B minor towers above all other choral works, and it can survive splendidly intact even with blemishes in performance; so it was with this one by Les Arts Florissants under the directi... Read MoreProm in the Multi-Storey Car-park, Peckham 2106
This would be a Prom like no other, we were told at the outset. And indeed it was, thanks to its unconventional auditorium: the low-ceilinged top floor of a multi-storey car-park in downtown Peckham, ... Read MoreProm 46, 2016
Ilan Volkov has grown steadily in stature as a conductor during his years in Scotland, but his direction of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Gerard Grisey’s Dérives was simply masterly. ‘Sp... Read MoreA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Glyndebourne, 2016
Peter Hall’s theatrical and operatic legacy is vast, but one of the productions at the heart of it is his A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened to universal plaudits in 1981. He and his creative... Read MoreReview of ‘Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar’, Oliver Hilmes, Yale
Sardonically christened ‘Lisztomania’ by the German poet Heinrich Heine, an infectious disease swept through musical Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. Women were its main victims, with fetishi... Read MoreRecital and concerto roundup, International Piano Magazine, July 2016
Barbican: Murray Perahia Jun 20 Royal Festival Hall: Richard Goode May 25 Wigmore Hall: Till Fellner May 30; Yevgeny Sudbin June 16; St James’s Church, Piccadilly: June 17 Murray Perahia is o... Read More‘Nothing’, Glyndebourne, 2016
A youth opera about adolescent alienation? We’ve watched too many of them founder in their own plodding worthiness, and the heart sank at the prospect of yet another, particularly one travelling und... Read MoreOedipe at the Royal Opera House: a revelation
Given its accessibility and musical magnificence, it seems extraordinary that Enescu’s Oedipe – premiered in Paris in 1936 – should have had to wait until now for its British premiere. But... Read More- 17 of 17
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