In the 1890s, between symphonies, Gustav Mahler tried his hand ‘improving’ string quartets by Beethoven and Schubert, in adaptations for string orchestra. They don’t get heard much these days.
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In his final opera, Jacques Offenbach made E.T.A. Hoffmann, the most famous poet of the Romantic period, into his main character. The poet explores the threshold between reality and fantasy in a fascinating way in […]
Rossini: The Barber of Seville; Dominic Sedgwick, Nico Darmanin, Katie Bray, Grant Doyle, Trevor Eliot Bowes, director: Victoria Newlyn, conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren; West Green House OperaReviewed 28 July 2024 Performing the piece with real engagement […]
The London Evening Standard is to stop printing five days a week and will aim to appear, possibly, just once a week. When I arrived at the Standard as Assistant Editor in 2002, we put […]
