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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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Bellringers, Hampstead Theatre review - mordant comedy about...

As hurricanes rip into the American Gulf states with increasing ferocity, Eastern Europe disappears underwater and even the gentle...

Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern review - adolesce...

Like an angry teenager rejecting everything his parents stand for,...

French Toast, Riverside Studios review - Racine-inspired sat...

It’s always fun jabbing at the permanently open wound that is Anglo-French relations, now with added snap post-Brexit, its fading, but...

Album: Ded Hyatt - Glossy

This record keeps you guessing. It starts off with “Hybrid Romance”, an ambient piece that’s very pretty but has swooping glassy synths that crack...

Ludwig, BBC One review - entertaining spin on the brainy det...

The latest incarnation of David Mitchell, TV actor, looks at first sight much like the familar one from Peep Show and Back...

Ellen DeGeneres, Netflix Special review - no mea culpa and f...

Hard to imagine it now, but just a few years ago Ellen DeGeneres was one of America’s biggest daytime TV stars; her chatshow The Ellen...

The Hardacres, Channel 5 review - a fishy tale of upward mob...

Set in Yorkshire in the 1890s, and based on the novels...

Juno and the Paycock, Gielgud Theatre review - a shockingly...

"Captain" Jack Boyle is a fantasist, a mythmaker, a storyteller. He relishes an audience – usually his sidekick, Joxer. There is a theatricality...

Hardenberger, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall,...

Two splendid pieces of orchestral virtuosity began and finished the second Saturday concert by the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds at the...

Angry and Young, Almeida Theatre review - vigorous and illum...

Why should we not look back in anger? With the Oasis reunion tour in the news recently, the title of John Osborne’s seminal kitchen-sink drama –...