Bluebeard’s Castle: “Bartók’s portrait of marital failure chillingly realised”

Posted by Johannes Feigl on 29 January 2015

Bluebeard’s Castle; wood engraving by Gustave Doré, public domain

Charles Dutoit’s performance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the final work in a Hungarian-themed evening, was a fine reminder of [Bluebeard’s Castle’s] power to haunt and disturb by musical means alone. (Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 28.01.2015)

Find Tim Ashley’s full review of Bluebeard’s Castle at the Royal Festival Hall on The Guardian.

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