Trying to hang on to a can-do mindset
Sod you, Ms Alzheimer’s. Time for some positive thinking. Whatever you say and do there are still, at the moment, plenty of...
Sod you, Ms Alzheimer’s. Time for some positive thinking. Whatever you say and do there are still, at the moment, plenty of...
Dave squaring up to Berlioz When I was a child whimsical adults would talk about benign fairies coming at bedtime to scatter...
Tuesday 01 August 2017 Of course I’ve heard many performances of Verdi’s Requiem and I’ve lost count of the times I’ve sung...
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Parvo Jarvi Vilde Frang (violin) Lawrence Power (viola) This was a concert which grew in scale as it proceeded....
Imaginative programming meant there were three contrasting styles from three different centuries in this vibrant concert. All credit to the BBC too...
Tuesday 25 July 2017 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra CBSO Youth Chorus John Wilson It’s a quirky but rather lovely idea for a...
This accomplished revival of Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera makes you wonder why it isn’t performed more often. It was entirely new to me...
This concise, passionate piece comes with echoes of both Chekhov and Ibsen – somewhere between The Seagull and A Doll’s House. Based...