Along with "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine, " "Walking on Thin Ice" holds a vaunted place among the collaborative works of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Indeed, it would be the final, poignant act in t...
01.24.2021 Salon.comRead full articleIvan Hewett22 January 2021, 12: 47 pm·2-min readSir Simon Rattle at the helm of the LSO - LSOLondon Symphony Orchestra, LSO St Luke''s ★★★★☆Every critic has their blind spots, and for...
01.22.2021 yahoo.com , telegraph.co.uk★★★☆☆Several things startled me in this streamed concert. Simon Rattle''s tempo choices, for one, but more on them shortly. And the spectacle of the London Symphony Orchestra''s principal bassoonist, ...
01.22.2021 Thetimes.co.ukwith Saint Francis of Assisi , works of disparate aesthetics where they exist. And the XXI has a way to follow the same path, that path that Alban Berg symbolically opened with his Wozzeck , a wonderf...
01.20.2021 Archyworldys.comSir Simon Rattle, Leonidas Kavakos and the LSO, review: From headiness with Berg to Romance with SchubertSubtitled “To the memory of an angel”, Alban Berg''s 1935 Violin Concerto is a personal meditation not just on the early death of the 18-year-old Manon Gropius, but also on his own illegitimate daughter - born to a servant while he was still a teenager. This heady collision of loss and love drives a work that ricochets between lyricism and knottier, more sternly serialist passages. The i news...
01.22.2021 Inews.co.ukEarly in 1946, two men boarded a train at Euston and went trawling for talent. Audition notices were posted at town halls up and down the land: singers wanted, no experience required. Two thousand app...
01.21.2021 Spectator.co.uk