Reader Reviews
The Gambler (Royal Opera House, West End)
Back to Show Details| Score | Comment | Date |
 | The review as written, is hopelessly conservative. While The Gambler may be the most inaccessible piece of music not written in a 12-tone form, it's an egregious error to accuse Prokofiev, on the one-hand, of conservative neo-Romanticism, and, on the other, to eschew his works from the modernist period. When will we ever get a critical culture that can get past some of the Cold war-era xenophobia on this greatest of 20th century composers? - Nicholas Lawson | 15 Feb 10 |
