Steve O'Rourke
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Benedetti, LSO, Noseda, Barbican review – power and focus
Shostakovich is ideal for Nicola Benedetti. His music requires...
La Traviata, Longborough Festival review - muddled director,...
One wearies of quarrelling with opera directors’ concepts. But what’s the alternative? To ignore or acquiesce in crude, approximate reimaginings...
Reporting Trump's First Year: the Fourth Estate, BBC Tw...
The cataclysm of Donald Trump’s election was like a second...
The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Grange Festival review...
Just as the Last Night of the Proms is an end-of-term party with a concert...
CD: Beth Rowley - Gota Fría
Gota Fría, or “cold drop”, is a Spanish weather phenomenon associated with violent rainstorms, when high pressure has caused a pocket of...
Katharine Kilalea: OK, Mr Field review - architecture and al...
Modern novels with an architectural theme have, to say the least, a mixed pedigree. At their finest, as in Thomas Bernhard’s Correction,...
theartsdesk in Paris - following in the footsteps of Gounod
It’s a truism that history is written by the victors, but nowhere in classical music is the argument made more persuasively than in the legacy and...
Sarah Langford: In Your Defence review - messy lives
When Sarah Langford goes to work, she puts on warpaint and wig and acts. But she is not an actor. She defends those who might or might not be...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Contract in Blood / Winds of Time
Although the cover of the 19 May 1979 issue of the music weekly Sounds was dominated by a photo of American...
CD: Ray Davies - Our Country: Americana Act II
When Ray Davies released his Americana LP last year, much was made of how the the ex-Kink's lyrical...