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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Werther, Royal Opera review - shadows and sunsets from an un...
Goethe’s Die Leiden des junges Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) was a vital spark in the ignition of the German romantic...
The Kitchen review – more gangsters' molls taking over...
Three women decide to take over their husbands’ criminal...
Big the Musical - sweet if wildly overstretched
The work isn't finished on Big, if this stage musical...
Defending the Guilty, BBC Two review - trials and tribulatio...
This new legal comedy is based on a well-received book...
Faith, Hope & Charity, National Theatre review - a grim...
Alexander Zeldin continues his devastating analysis of modern Britain in this culminating play of a (very loose) trilogy that started with...
Love in the Countryside, BBC Two review - reaping a harvest...
If you’re a farmer who works round the clock to feed sheep, milk cows and so forth, how on earth do you make time to find a partner and reap a...
Don Giovanni, Royal Opera review - laid-back Lothario
Kasper Holten left a mixed bag of productions behind at...
Brydon, Mack and Mitchell, Portsmouth Guildhall review - fam...
Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are the host and team captains respectively of Would I Lie to You?, the long-running BBC One...
BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park review – Pet Shop Boys, Westli...
You might think that being first on the bill with a half-hour slot at 1.15pm would be an affront to a band who’d had a 12-times platinum album and...