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Gavin Dixon

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Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor based in Hertfordshire, UK. He has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition, currently being published in St Petersburg. Gavin is also a Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and Music Editor of Fanfare Magazine.

Articles By Gavin Dixon

Moses und Aron, Komische Oper Berlin, OperaVision review – complex and powerful memorial

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Sadko, Bolshoi Opera online review - medieval Russia meets reality TV

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Remembering Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)

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Skelton, Rice, BBCSO, Gardner, Barbican review – romanticism’s last stand

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Gabetta, NHK SO, Järvi, RFH review - transparency and dynamism

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Blaauw, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - Beethoven seen in '2020 Vision'

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Buniatishvili, RPO, Wigglesworth, RFH review – dark drama and controlled power

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Cargill, BBCSO, Saraste, Barbican review - less is more in Shostakovich

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Beethoven Discovery Day, Batiashvili, LSO, Rattle, Barbican review – reassessing a rarity

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Family Total Immersion: Lift Off!, BBC SO, Glassberg, Barbican review – 50th anniversary tribute to Apollo 11

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Death in Venice, Royal Opera review – expansive but intimate evocations

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theartsdesk in Warsaw: musical perspectives on culture beyond communism

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Pavlů, Prague SO, Inkinen, Cadogan Hall review - exhilarating but uneven Mahler Third

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Williams, LPO, Alsop, RFH review - sleek lines and pastoral tones

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Weinberg Focus Day, Wigmore Hall review – innocence and loss, violence and calm

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Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall review - a match made in heaven

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Gilbert & George, 21st Century Pictures, Hayward Gallery...

There was a time when Gilbert & George made provocative pictures that probed the body politic for sore points that others preferred to ignore...

The Perfect Neighbor, Netflix review - Florida found-footage...

Another day, another shooting: this is Florida, USA, where the "Stand Your...

Bryony Kimmings, Soho Theatre Walthamstow review - captivati...

Bryony Kimmings’ new show – her first in five years – was created to celebrate the opening of Soho Walthamstow, the previously...

Blu-ray: Le Quai des Brumes

From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during...

La bohème, Opera North review - still young at 32

Phyllida Lloyd’s production of La Bohème for Opera North is...

Shibe, LSO, Adès, Barbican review - gaudy and glorious new m...

Many orchestral concerts leaven two or three established classics with something new or unusual. The LSO reversed that formula...

Frankenstein review - the Prometheus of the charnel house

Guillermo del Toro strains every sinew to bring his dream film to life, steeping it in religious symbolism and the history of art, cannily...

Solar Eyes, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham review - local lad...

Their new album may have been born out of a deep dive into Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic reimagining of the post-Manson killings’ atmosphere of...