stephen walsh
Bio
Stephen is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author of a major biography of Stravinsky and other books on Stravinsky, Bartók and Schumann. He holds a chair in music at Cardiff University.
Articles By Stephen Walsh
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Paul Simon, BST Hyde Park review - still sprightly after 76...
"Homeward Bound – the Farewell Tour", they were calling it. But with a show this strong, nobody would complain if that farewell were to turn out...
Prom 3, BBC Young Musician at 40 review - multi-layered birt...
How do you go about co-ordinating a spectacular like this, the first ever BBC Young Musicians'...
Unforgotten, Series 3, ITV review - death on the M1
So it’s back to London’s Bishop Street police station for a...
Preoccupations, The Haunt, Brighton review - energetic set s...
Hailing from Canada and born from the ashes of cult indie heroes Women (the band responsible...
CD: Drake - Scorpion
This is Drake’s account of his astrological sign, the only one to be represented in multiple forms: an eagle and phoenix as well as the...
Guy Stagg, The Crossway review – a gripping pilgrimage throu...
On new year’s day in 2013, Guy Stagg set out to walk alone from Canterbury to Jerusalem. He planned this journey, which would take ten months,...
First Reformed - faith fights the eco-apocalypse
Father Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) calls himself one of God’s lonely men. The term given to Paul Schrader’s anti-...
Isabeau, Opera Holland Park review - Mascagni's lumpy G...
Valiant Opera Holland Park, always taking up the gauntlet for Italian operas which should mostly never be staged again. Worst was Zandonai's ...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Kamal Keila
Music from Sudan is overshadowed by the country’s recent history. At the end of June 1989, Colonel Omar al-Bashir assumed control and it became a...
The Lehman Trilogy, National Theatre review - an acting tour...
There's surprising and then there's The Lehman Trilogy, the...