David Nice
Bio
David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he is a regular voice on BBC Radio 3. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs his own lecture series, Opera in Depth, at the Frontline Club in Paddington.
Articles By David Nice
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Christa Ludwig, 1928-2021: a selective tribute
I only saw Christa Ludwig twice live in concert, but those appearances epitomise her incredible dramatic and vocal rage as well as her peerless...
Points of Departure, Brighton Festival 2021 review - Ray Lee...
They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an...
Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects, Gagosian Gallery review...
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Album: Rag'n'Bone Man - Life by Misadventure
Rory Graham was always stoically familiar with life’s knocks. With a stage-name inspired by Galton and Simpson’s fatalistic...
Album: Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Volume 1
If you want to understand the psychic harm that prolonged ...
BBC Young Musician 2020 Finale, BBC Four review - poise vers...
“You have to be careful you’re not judging the piece,” cautioned a pearl-necklaced Nicholas Daniel, great oboist and winner of the 1980...
Blu-ray: Raw
Raw opens with a bang, a distant figure on a remote country road stepping out in front of a car, causing it to crash into a tree. What’s...