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November 10, 2017 Susan Elkin

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...

October 5, 2017 Susan Elkin

Tosca (Susan Elkin reviews)

The Kings Head Theatre,  2 October 2017 Puccini’s 1887 masterpiece was, of course, meant for the big stage, initially at Theatre de...

September 16, 2017 Susan Elkin

Prom 74 (Susan Elkin reviews)

As always on the penultimate night of the world’s biggest classical music festival, the atmosphere in the Royal Albert Hall was up...

September 16, 2017 Susan Elkin

Prom 64 (Susan Elkin reviews)

I heard the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on their home turf in Amsterdam in June so it was a real treat to catch...

August 20, 2017 Susan Elkin

Prom 36 (Susan Elkin reviews)

It is Thomas Dausgaard’s extraordinary control over dynamics that I shall remember most about this concert. In the Schubert he had the...