Reviews - Music
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