JDCMB
Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog. Music and writing in London, UK.
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
This man will take your life
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His name is Richard Wagner, and if you let him, that's what he'll do. Of course, you mightn't show him in through the door in th...
Monday, November 05, 2018
At last, the definitive Chopin biography is here
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In yesterday's Sunday Times, I reviewed a book that is not only the best one about Chopin I've ever read, but maybe the finest biogr...
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Turgenev's 200th
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Ivan Turgenev I learned, a little late, that today is the bicentenary of one of the writers I love best: Ivan Turgenev. (Some give the d...
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Never give up...
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My Top 10 ODETTE FAQs... Q: Ooh, Odette? The World War II spy? Or Proust? J: Er, no. Swan Lake. Q: The Tchaikovsky ballet? So did you...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Plastic shmashtic
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I just photographed the packaging of my latest assignment While I'm writing this, I ought to be writing a CD review. Yes, my copy f...
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