English National Ballet: The Nutcracker (Susan Elkin reviews)
London Coliseum, 13 December 2018 An Elkin Christmas is not complete without a good Nutcracker and a decent Messiah (latter next week although I’m not reviewing...
London Coliseum, 13 December 2018 An Elkin Christmas is not complete without a good Nutcracker and a decent Messiah (latter next week although I’m not reviewing...
To be clear at the outset, I am not Susan! Regular readers will know me as one of the two sons, father...
It seems that Ms Alzheimer’s was a bit lonely in our house. So she’s brought a few friends along to jolly us...
A slightly less populist concert than MSO often presents, we began with Kodaly’s Dances of Galanta. Brian Wright observed in his introduction that...
On a personal level this was a very much a “been-there-done-that” sort of concert. Mozart’s Haffner symphony was the very first whole symphony I...
20 November, St Michael’s Church, Highgate This imaginatively programmed chamber concert opened and closed with substantial works (Beethoven String Trio in G...
Finding, hiring and working with carers is a whole new ball game and one which – until recently – I never imagined...
A pleasant enough concert but I have to say that, given the date, to programme Rossini, Beethoven and Dvorak all in fairly...