Igor Toronyi-Lalic
igor.toronyilalic
- Bio
- Igor is a critic, curator and film-maker. He has written for The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, The Economist, Opera and a wide range of other publications. He is the author of What's That Thing? (2012), a report on public art.
Articles by Igor Toronyi-Lalic
Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev, Barbican
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Janine Jansen had every right to be nervous. The last time most of us saw the London Symphony Orchestra the audience spent the whole time laughing at their star soloist. But then Mr Bean has a very... Read more... |
BBC Proms: Cameron Carpenter/ Znaider, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly
Sunday, 02 September 2012
I'd love to see the stats on the last time a Prom was this packed for an afternoon organ recital. Were it not for the fact that organist Cameron Carpenter was sporting spandex trousers encrusted... Read more... |
DVD: RoGoPaG
Sunday, 02 September 2012
Even though their names are bound together in the portmanteau title, the directors of the four short films that make up RoGoPaG - Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini and Gregoretti - don't go for any sort... Read more... |
BBC Proms: Berlin Philharmonic, Rattle
Friday, 31 August 2012
It's not completely unheard of what Rattle did at the start of last night's Prom, where he elided two familiar works - Ligeti's colouristic classic Atmosphères and the Prelude to Act One of... Read more... |
BBC Proms: Peter Grimes, English National Opera/ BBC Symphony Orchestra, Knussen
Sunday, 26 August 2012
After the all-singing, all-dancing, all-helicoptering brilliance of Stockhausen Mittwoch aus Licht, the dry routine of an opera in concert didn't seem a very enticing prospect. That's the... Read more... |
Mittwoch aus Licht, Birmingham Opera Company
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Singing camels, paddling trombonists, airborne string quartets and a libretto so barmy it makes David Icke sound like Richard Dawkins. Birmingham, welcome to the world of Karlheinz Stockhausen. The... Read more... |
BBC Proms: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Barenboim (Concert Five)/ Members of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, Roth
Saturday, 28 July 2012
And so we came to the Ninth. But wasn't it meant to be the only work on the programme? Why then was I hearing Boulez? A mishap: the final movement saw the quartet of soloists fall apart so... Read more... |
The Hawks and the Sparrows/ Pigsty
Friday, 27 July 2012
The tone of these two new Pier Paolo Pasolini's re-releases couldn't be more different. The Hawks and the Sparrows stars the Italian prince of laughter Totò and one of Pasolini's most popular... Read more... |
BBC Proms: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Barenboim (Concert Four)/ Kronos Quartet
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Much has been written about how old-fashioned Barenboim's Beethoven cycle feels. Yet what can seem backward-looking is in fact a perfect reflection of Barenboim's personality. Each and every symphony... Read more... |
BBC Proms: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Barenboim (Concert 1)
Saturday, 21 July 2012
Last night was meant to be a celebration of Beethoven and Barenboim. But we had a gatecrasher. And at the opening concert of the first cycle of the Beethoven symphonies at the Proms for 60 years, the... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Pierre Boulez
Friday, 20 July 2012
One of the most exciting things to happen in orchestral music in recent years has been the way the music of Pierre Boulez (b 1925) has begun to escape the confines of the specialist contemporary... Read more... |
Art in Action, The Tanks, Tate Modern
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
You now have two choices when you roll down to the bottom of the Turbine Hall's slope. Read more... |
BBC Proms: Pelléas et Mélisande, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Gardiner
Monday, 16 July 2012
How silly an armchair looks in the Royal Albert Hall - like a rubber duck floating in the Pacific. Yet how right it was for those behind this excellent semi- staged Proms performance of Debussy's... Read more... |
DVD: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Friday, 06 July 2012
It's over an hour before we see a woman in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. And even then, she arrives slowly, appearing at first more of a heavenly human smudge than a fully formed... Read more... |
Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Saturday, 30 June 2012
It's amazing how long it takes to realise that we're in the 1970s in Michael Grandage's new Glyndebourne production of Le nozze di Figaro. The mansion house suggests that we're in the 18th century.... Read more... |
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Dudamel, Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Standing ovations. Spontaneous genuflections. A we-can-change-the-world lecture. This must be what's it like to live in a Communist state. Funnily enough, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra... Read more... |
How to contact Igor Toronyi-Lalic
- personal website
- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/author/igortoronyilalic2/
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