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A salute to the restless genius of Sir Stephen Hough as he takes centre stage at Wigmore Hall
February 02, 2023
Michael White salutes the restless genius of Sir Stephen Hough as the composer takes centre stage at Wigmore Hall
In the presence of the Angels: Benedict XVI’s theology of Church music
February 01, 2023
Liturgy is central to the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI – and music was central to his vision of liturgical renewal. In an address to the eighth International Church Music Congress, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said: “The liturgy is supposed to be opus Dei, God’s work, in which he Himself acts first, and we become the redeemed
Bach’s divine gift brought to life
August 12, 2022
The Great Passion by James Runcie Bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages This sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing of his St Matthew Passion – first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1727 – is every bit as brilliantly dramatic as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus. I couldn’t put it
Musical healing
June 28, 2022
Gertrude Clark speaks to Sir James MacMillan about the power of music
Mother’s boy
March 30, 2022
Michael White is charmed by fast-rising Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński’s rendition of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
Too much to Handel
February 28, 2022
The Royal Opera’s flashy production of ‘Theodora’ reduces its Christian context to a minimum, says Michael White
Festive fortunes
January 27, 2022
Over Christmas, Michael White is unmoved by Verdi’s ‘Nambucco’ and charmed by Berlioz’s ‘L‘Enfance du Christ’
MacMillan’s Christmas cracker
December 26, 2021
Michael White reports on the premiere of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio and the annual Britten festival in Suffolk
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