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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

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

Monday, 02 October 2017 Read more...

The Tallis Scholars, Phillips, Cadogan Hall review - intimacy in late Renaissance music

Saturday, 23 September 2017 Read more...

Last Night of the Proms review: Stemme, BBCSO, Oramo - international array, abundant blue and gold

Sunday, 10 September 2017 Read more...

Prom 74: Ax, Vienna Philharmonic, Tilson Thomas review - elegance without passion

Saturday, 09 September 2017 Read more...

Prom 6: Benedetti, BBC NOW, Søndergård - dazzling violin magic

Wednesday, 19 July 2017 Read more...

Katya Kabanova, Opera Holland Park review - clarity and pace in Janáček's Volga tragedy

Monday, 17 July 2017 Read more...

OAE, Christie, St John's Smith Square

Wednesday, 05 July 2017 Read more...

Die Walküre, Grange Park Opera review - imaginative and intelligent

Friday, 30 June 2017 Read more...

Ensemble InterContemporain, Wigmore Hall

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 Read more...

Britten Sinfonia, Adès, Barbican

Wednesday, 07 June 2017 Read more...

Britten Sinfonia, Adès, Milton Court

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 Read more...

LSO, Haitink, Barbican

Tuesday, 30 May 2017 Read more...

Hagen Quartet, Wigmore Hall

Monday, 01 May 2017 Read more...

Janina Fialkowska, Wigmore Hall

Thursday, 27 April 2017 Read more...

Tamestit, LSO, Roth, Barbican

Monday, 24 April 2017 Read more...

Landshamer, New York Philharmonic, Gilbert, Barbican

Saturday, 01 April 2017 Read more...

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Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...