Michael White

Celestial assault in a mind-altering performance of Hildegard’s soaring music

whatever we know about the 12th-century religious polymath hildegard of bingen is new knowledge, because she all but vanished from the recor...

God at the Proms: Three powerful performances in this year’s season

that this year’s proms were  big on god and death was  maybe nothing special: god and death are ever-present in the concert repert...

From Cheltenham to Ryedale: the highs and lows of the festival season

the essex town of thaxted has assorted claims to fame, but for the most part they relate to its medieval parish church: a building of cathed...

Response to life

michael white enjoys three very different outstanding performances. when music tourists go to leipzig it tends to be for js bach, who lies b...

Enjoying tango and church music

even a resolute republican would have been impressed by one essential aspect of king charles’s coronation: its delirious abundance of great ...

Henryk Górecki: A sonic exorcism

michael white finds the perfect setting for górecki’s symphony of sorrowful songs. some years ago i went to warsaw to meet henryk górecki, w...

Finding intensity and delight in new and abounding talent

in his lifetime (1637-1707) dietrich buxtehude rose to fame in  mainland europe as organist and choirmaster at the mariankirche, lubeck...

Fauré's Requiem – Facing death through music

michael white praises a production of fauré’s requiem accompanied by sky burial, and a powerful opera about a nun visiting death row. gabrie...

Byrd’s secret music soars

michael white on a clandestine retelling of william byrd’s 16th-century mass settings and a buddhist interpretation of bach’s passions. we h...

Vermeer: A Catholic painter in Calvinist Delft?

michael white takes in the rijksmuseum’s show on the life, work and faith of johannes vermeer. within the world’s great art collections, tit...

A salute to the restless genius of Sir Stephen Hough as he takes centre stage at Wigmore Hall

Michael White salutes the restless genius of Sir Stephen Hough as the composer takes centre stage at Wigmore Hall
it’s hard to write about the pianist stephen hough, now elevated to the status of sir stephen, without listing his extensive claims to fame ...

Believing in a better Britten

Michael White on ENO’s questionable festive offering, the best and worst of Snape Maltings’ Britten Weekend, and a tribute to Peter Tranchell
sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...

Music on the Moors

Michael White enoys a unique musical experience and reflects on the very different pressures musicians and choristers faced hundreds of years ago
it’s hard to see these days, but scratched into a wall at exeter cathedral is the name of a composer who was born four centuries ago this ye...

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