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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Album: Gojira - Fortitude
Chances are many will not have heard of Gojira. At best, as a music lover, theirs may be a name seen among the line-up of...
Sisters With Transistors review - the forgotten frontier
From deep within the bowels of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop came the sounds of the future. Strange howls and beeps, unnatural yet recognisably...
Album: Tom Jones - Surrounded by Time
“I'm growing old,” laments Tom Jones as his 40th studio album draws to a close. Sir Tom is “growing dimmer in the eyes” and “drowsy in...
Michael Spitzer: The Musical Human review - charting our age...
Music and time each dwell inside the other. And the more you attend to musical sounds, the...
The Importance of Being Earnest online review - Oscar Wilde...
Oscar Wilde's fabulous play satirised Victorian England and contained...
Album: Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
When Laurence Binyon wrote: “Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn…” he was, of course, talking about the...
Mare of Easttown, Sky Atlantic review - Kate Winslet shines...
Dark family dramas set in unglamorous, unprosperous communities in the north-east of the USA have become a genre unto themselves. One thinks here...
The Gesualdo Six, St Martin-in-the-Fields online review - pe...
For their concert debut at St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Gesualdo Six brought a programme of English motets for the final instalment in...
Blu-ray: Straight Shooting / Hell Bent
There are moments in Straight Shooting (1917), the first feature directed by John (then "Jack") Ford, when its star Harry Carey (1878-...
A Splinter of Ice, Original Theatre Company online review -...
There’s such a genial feel to the pairing of Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in...