Last week we reported much dissatisfaction with the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who reverted from a Beethoven recital on his UK tour to last year’s tried-and-tested Goldberg Variations. The switch was all the more aggravating […]
The Miro Quartet has been around since 1995, and astonishingly, 3 out of the 4 original members are still part of the group today. (The current 2nd violinist joined them in 2011). They haven’t made many […]
Alastair Macaulay reviews: Two by Chekhov – The Three Sisters (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, playing to April 19); The Seagull (Barbican Theatre, to April 5) No foreign playwright returns to the London stage more often than […]