thu 25/04/2024

Gavin Dixon

Gavin Dixon's picture
Bio
Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor based in Hertfordshire, UK. He has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition, currently being published in St Petersburg. Gavin is also a Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and Music Editor of Fanfare Magazine.

Articles By Gavin Dixon

Hagen Quartet, Jörg Widmann, Wigmore Hall review – proportion and elegance

Read more...

Royal Academy of Music SO, Knussen, RAM review – vibrant, varied Stravinsky

Read more...

Colin Currie Group, Kings Place review - dynamism and detail in Steve Reich

Read more...

Salome, Royal Opera review – lurid staging still packs a punch

Read more...

Zimerman, LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - a diverse Bernstein centenary

Read more...

Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida, Wigmore Hall review - direct and uncompromising Schubert

Read more...

Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Wigmore Hall review - lyrical Brahms from veteran duo

Read more...

theartsdesk in Katowice - energy and imagination at the Fitelberg Conducting Competition

Read more...

Singcircle, Barbican review - veteran ensemble bids farewell with Stockhausen

Read more...

Florian Boesch, Justus Zeyen, Wigmore Hall review - power, intimacy and atmosphere

Read more...

LPO, Renes, RFH review - solid Bruckner lacking in nuance

Read more...

BBCSO, Storgårds, Barbican review – Jolas intrigues, Mahler 4 disappoints

Read more...

Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera review - creepy, violent and intense

Read more...

BBCSO, Brabbins, Barbican review - commanding vistas of earth and sea

Read more...

Dardanus, English Touring Opera review - mixed fortunes for warzone updating

Read more...

Goode, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - tender Mozart, dynamic Bruckner

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Ridout, Włoszczowska, Crawford, Lai, Posner, Wigmore Hall re...

Advice to young musicians, as given at several “how to market your career” seminars: don’t begin a biography with “one of the finest xxxs of his/...

Stephen review - a breathtakingly good first feature by a mu...

Stephen is the first feature film by multi-media artist Melanie Manchot and it’s the best debut film I’ve seen since Steve McQueen’s ...

Album: Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

Despite its title, Mdou Moctar’s new album is no slow-paced mournful dirge. In fact, it is louder, faster and more overtly political than any of...

Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop sh...

The first season of Blue Nights was so close to ...

Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - ench...

Sabine Devieilhe, as with many other great sopranos, elicits much fan worship, with no less than three encores at her recent Wigmore Hall recital...

Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review -...

In A History of the World in 47 Borders, Jonn Elledge takes an ostensibly dry subject – how maps and boundaries have shaped our world –...

DVD/Blu-Ray: Priscilla

There’s a scene in Priscilla where Elvis stands above his wife, who is scrambling to put her clothes in a suitcase. Priscilla has just...

Špaček, BBC Philharmonic, Bihlmaier, Bridgewater Hall, Manch...

Billed as a “Viennese Whirl”, this programme showed that there are different kinds of music that may be known to the orchestral canon as coming...

Banging Denmark, Finborough Theatre review - lively but conf...

What would happen if a notorious misogynist actually fell in love? With a glacial Danish librarian? And decided his best means of...

Album: Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening

The previous solo piano solo album from Fred Hersch, one of the world’s great...