Swansong (Susan Elkin reviews)
Iain Burnside is a commensurate communicator. Witness his often quirky, but always fascinating, programmes on Radio 3 over the years and his...
Iain Burnside is a commensurate communicator. Witness his often quirky, but always fascinating, programmes on Radio 3 over the years and his...
Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto is a bit out of fashion – apart from, maybe, at Raymond Gubbay concerts. I haven’t heard a...
It is often said that his Requiem is Verdi’s greatest opera and it certainly isn’t short of musical drama. So it’s an...
The Kings Head Theatre, 2 October 2017 Puccini’s 1887 masterpiece was, of course, meant for the big stage, initially at Theatre de...
As always on the penultimate night of the world’s biggest classical music festival, the atmosphere in the Royal Albert Hall was up...
I heard the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on their home turf in Amsterdam in June so it was a real treat to catch...
It is Thomas Dausgaard’s extraordinary control over dynamics that I shall remember most about this concert. In the Schubert he had the...
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...