David Nice
Bio
David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he is a regular voice on BBC Radio 3. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs his own lecture series, Opera in Depth, at the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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Josh Ritter, Union Chapel review - strong songs and a boyish...
Josh Ritter is in his early forties. He has a two-decade career with 10 studio albums (and, incidentally, a First World War novel) to his name. He...
Il Segreto di Susanna/Iolanta, Opera Holland Park review - s...
Secrets, and the voluptuous, sensory pleasures they conceal, may unite Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna and...
Prom 3, CBeebies: A Musical Trip to the Moon review - a cele...
This year’s Proms for children were entitled “Off to the Moon...
Helen Schjerfbeck, Royal Academy review - watchful absences...
Light creeps under the church door. Entering as a slice of burning white, it softens and blues into the stone interior, seeming to make the walls...
Lights, Camera, Malta!, BBC Concert Orchestra, Malta review...
With sapphire blue waters, year-round sun and architecture that spans centuries and cultures, it’s little wonder that Malta is a favourite...
Prom 2, Bell, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Hrůša review – Boh...
Eighty years ago this summer, Neville Chamberlain’s indifference to the peoples of Czechoslovakia – “a quarrel in a far away country between...
Vic Marks: Original Spin review - trouble in Taunton
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Peter Laughner
“As much as I love New York City, it’s all too obvious that Cleveland is about to become the musical focal point that the Big Apple has been on...