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Michael White
The spiritual intensity of a Suffolk weekend
composers by tradition channel their most serious, abstract thinking into symphonies and string quartets. and though benjamin britten was ne...
Recovering the delicate radicalism of Debussy
one of this year’s major cultural anniversaries has been the centenary of the death of debussy, a composer who ranks alongside schoenberg an...
Music: Spending too long in the trenches
in the coming weeks there will be no escape from world war i commemorations. in the concert hall, onstage and in exhibition spaces we’ll be ...
Music: A smug and desperate attempt to shock
salome has no more than a bit part in the bible, and doesn’t even merit a name-check in the two accounts of her demanding the head of john t...
Music: The fine-tuned purr of flawless a cappella
time flies. it seems like last week, but it’s actually been a year since simon rattle’s triumphant homecoming to take charge of the london s...
Music: When WH Auden broke opera’s rules
people who write words for opera end to tell you it’s a thankless task. the text is always secondary to the music, which invariably drowns i...
Music: Songs of Darkness light up Last Night
the last night of the proms is always a bizarre event. the best-known concert in the world, it mixes melancholia with craziness as a finale ...
Music: Elegant, meticulous…but still Karajan-lite
when simon rattle left the berlin philharmonic – by tradition, expectation and occasional reality the finest orchestra on earth – the job of...
Classical: We’re no longer the Land Without Music
for a land without music, as the germans used to call us, we british don’t do badly when it comes to sending conductors overseas to run the ...
Music: Simon Rattle delivers a Ravel suite to die for
i’ve long thought that, should there be a full-sized symphony orchestra to hand, i’d happily die to the closing section of ravel’s mother go...
Music: Is Bach too boring for a biopic?
turning the lives of great composers into theatre is a dodgy task – remembering those 1950s films where grieg or schubert strike artistic po...
Music: The quartet with a boy band’s swagger
no one has ever come up with a convincing explanation of what makes a conductor and an orchestra a good fit; but when the chemistry works, y...
Music: Youth and experience in the Swiss mountains
gala concerts can be self-indulgent, over-long, and a complete dog’s dinner when it comes to repertoire. but they can also be extraordinary ...
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