Alastair Macaulay reviews the Royal Ballet’s latest for slippedisc.com: Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets by Alastair Macaulay The Royal Ballet, as if proclaiming that we have entered a great era of new ballet choreography, is beginning […]
The windy old house in Lowestoft where Benjamin Britten was born and spent his childhood has been put up for sale at around £800,000. It has served for the past two decades as a seaview […]
I loved the Quatuor Hanson‘s two previous recordings for Aparte Records. So when I saw them doing Schumann on Harmonia Mundi, I wondered, why Schumann? Of all the string quartet repertoire which they haven’t even begun […]