Reviews - Music
December 07, 2009 An anti-semitic Fledermaus in Berlin? Brendan Simms on Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus at the Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, Berlin Brendan Simms
November 03, 2009 Alternative Hsitory as Opera: Brendan Simms on John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles Brendan Simms
March 10, 2008 Magic Moments at Covent Garden: Going to a Schools' Matinee gives one a much better impression of contemporary schoolchildren than one gets from newspapers or television, argues Lincoln Allison Lincoln Allison
July 19, 2007 Opera and the Bosnian War - Brendan Simms enjoys an Operatic Parable about the Bosnian War: Nigel Osborne's Differences in Demolition at Wilton's Music Hall, London Brendan Simms
June 18, 2007 Brendan Simms finds that Kurt Weill's political propaganda does not work when it is done for laughs - even if it is translated by Rory Bremner: Kurt Weill's Der Silbersee at the Wexford Festival Opera Brendan Simms
March 28, 2007 William D. Rubinstein asks, should anyone be surprised that a genius such as George Gershwin was a flawed human being? The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin - Joan Peyser William D. Rubinstein
March 26, 2007 At the Sign of the Hedgehog: Piano Recital by Tessa Uys at the Red Hedgehog David Conway
February 26, 2007 Echoes from a Beautiful World: a Schubert Recital by Matthias Goerne at the Wigmore Hall, London David Conway
November 28, 2006 Rameau 10 - Pacini nil: London performances of Giovanni Pacini's Alessandro nell'Indie and Jean-Phillipe Rameau's Dardanus David Conway
November 17, 2006 Mozart, Maths and Tom Wakefield: Piano Recital by Thomas Wakefield at the Cambridge Music Festival David Conway
November 14, 2006 Austrian anti-Nazism and other fairy-stories: The Sound of Music - Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein David Womersley
October 18, 2006 On a Human Scale: Shostakovich and his circle - Concerts in St. Petersburg David Conway
October 02, 2006 Green but not mean: Stephen Schwartz's musical Wicked at the Apollo Victoria David Conway
September 28, 2006 Halévy's Hit - Fromental Halévy's La Juive performed in concert by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House at the Barbican Hall David Conway
September 01, 2006 The Voice of the Instrument - David Conway falls in love with an old Bösendorfer David Conway
June 30, 2006 Christopher Peachment makes a modest proposal... Handel and the Castrati at the Handel House Museum Christopher Peachment
June 20, 2006 A Caucasian Gold Circle - Valery Gergiev conducts Wagner's Ring cycle at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg David Conway
May 30, 2006 Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality: Janacek's The Makropulos Case at the Coliseum Kenneth Minogue
May 30, 2006 Never mind the sidelocks: David Conway on the Hasidic musical superstars Matisyahu and Josef Gusikov David Conway
May 23, 2006 Fragments from a Life - The Wihan Quartet perform Smetana's String Quartet no. 2 at the Wigmore Hall David Conway
April 12, 2006 Off Circuit - Erich Zeisel's Requiem, John White's 70th Birthday Concert, and the Navarra String Quartet David Conway
March 24, 2006 A Night at the Chinese Opera - Judith Weir's opera arrives in London at last David Conway
March 17, 2006 The Sound and The Furies - Sergei Taneyev's The Oresteia in St. Petersburg David Conway
January 30, 2006 Raise a Pinto - Piano music of George Frederick Pinto played by Thomas Wakefield David Conway
December 14, 2005 Late Romantic Music: Great Works You Would Like If You Knew They Existed William D. Rubinstein
December 12, 2005 On Love and Humanity: Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde - Roger Scruton David Conway
December 05, 2005 Violetta for me - Roger Scruton's Violet at the Guildhall School of Music David Conway
November 25, 2005 Ah, wilderness! - Mozart's La Finta Giardinera by the Royal Academy Opera David Conway
November 07, 2005 A Grand Undertaking - Kevin Bowyer performs Charles-Valentin Alkan's organ and pédalier works, recorded by Toccata Classics David Conway
November 07, 2005 Anthony Minghella directs Madam Butterfly - Puccini's Madam Butterfly at the Coliseum Kenneth Minogue
August 19, 2005 Worth the Wait - Anne Sofie von Otter & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra at the Proms David Conway
June 23, 2005 Towards the Light - Wagner's Parsifal at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg David Conway
June 20, 2005 Tuppence Coloured - Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the St. Petersburg Philarmonia David Conway
April 04, 2005 Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas - Re-released by Naxos Historical David Conway
February 08, 2005 The Gospel according to Mendelssohn - Bach's St. Matthew Passion (1829 version by Felix Mendelssohn) David Conway
January 31, 2005 The Film of the Symphony - Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony in St. Petersburg David Conway
January 10, 2005 Two Traditions - Steven Osborne performs Tippett & Jazz at the Wigmore Hall David Conway
November 30, 2004 Truth, Friendship & Love - The Magic Flute at the Royal Academy Opera David Conway
November 16, 2004 Not in Time Out - Royal College of Music students' concerts & Jose Maria Guerrero David Conway