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Three big works from the English visionary of the 20th century. Classical review by Robert Beale

To the international world of ballet, Clement Crisp was the British critic to fear for half a century. Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times - "the pink 'un" - from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and - often - their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight.

This Sunday a period of gripping mystery in Edward Elgar's life will be summoned up when the LSO perform his oratorio The Kingdom at the Barbican. When he was struggling to write this devoutly religious work, going through something like a nervous breakdown, a young Welsh red-headed music-hall dancer was making her way on London stages. Were these events connected? More to the point, did Elgar have a lovechild with the dancer? Yes, was the answer given in private by musical circles. But the...

Scriabin is known today for his bizarre behaviour and outlandish visions – but his thinking was very much of his time, says Daniel Jaffé

Conozca más sobre las efemérides del 21 de agosto de 2021. En 1888, William S. Burroughs patenta la máquina de sumar, precursora de la calculadora.

Friday, May 7, 2021 Peter Dickinson recalls how the French composers profile increased radically in the 1970s - and the role he played in that Erik Satie: Peter Dickinson recalls how the composers reputation changed in the 1970s (photo: Tully Potter archive) Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the fo...

The artist Isabel Rawsthorne. She married three times and each time her name changed, meaning ‘she just had to start again’. Photograph: John Everard Generations of female artists, composers and writers have been lost to history because their names changed after marriage. According to growing academic consensus, the conventional switch of surnames at the altar has erased a key cultural legacy. And the story of the painter and designe...

What’s in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married Vanessa Thorpe Generations of female artists, composers and writers have been lost to history because their names changed after marriage. According to growing academic consensus, the conventional switch of surnames at the altar has erased a key cultural legacy. And the story of the painter and designer Isabel Rawsthorne, told in a new biography, is among the first to make this powerful argument. A...