27 MAY 2006, page 80

Indestructible Janacek

Michael Tanner The Makropulos Case ENO Cosi fan tutte Glyndebourne J anacek’s The Makropulos Case remains a bewildering work, as in fact almost all his operas after Jenufa , and......

German Gems

Robin Holloway I t is hard to embrace Max Reger. For a start, he is surely the physically ugliest of all composers, surpassing even Prokofiev, or Zemlinsky, whose repulsiveness......