Cuarteto Casals , Wigmore Hall, Jan 12 String Quartets are hard to come by locally, it's a long time since I occupied 'my' seat, A1, in Wigmore Hall and the very excellent Cuarteto Casals were playing the great favourite, Shos 3, so it was an obvious midw... See more
Cuarteto Casals , Wigmore Hall, Jan 12 String Quartets are hard to come by locally, it's a long time since I occupied 'my' seat, A1, in Wigmore Hall and the very excellent Cuarteto Casals were playing the great favourite, Shos 3, so it was an obvious midw... See more
Sean O'Brien, The Bonfire Party (Picador) There was a time it seemed to me that once beyond the age of 60, poets either ground to a halt or began repeating themselves. If it's a rule at all it's one of the type that need exceptions to prove it. Exceptions... See more
It's a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Like listening to Jane Garvey and Fi Glover on Times Radio yesterday afternoon. They interviewed Maggie O'Farrell ahead of the film of Hamnet. It's a brilliant book, might well make a good film ... See more
The Captain's Daughter , according to the back cover of Pushkin's Novels, Tales, Journeys, 'has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature'. There will be time to wonder whether there are grades of perfection elsewhere. Not having read the wh... See more
