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Enrique Mazzola

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

La Serenissima, Wigmore Hall review - an Italian menu to sav...

For 30 years, La Serenissima have re-mapped the landscape of the Italian Baroque repertoire so that its towering figures, notably Vivaldi, no...

Jon Fosse: Morning and Evening review - after thoughts

Jon Fosse talks a lot about thinking. He also thinks – hard – about talking. His prolific and award-winning career in poetry, prose, and drama,...

Roman Rabinovich, Wigmore Hall review - full tone in four st...

Is this the same Roman Rabinovich who drew harp-like delicacy from one of Chopin’s Pleyel pianos, and seeming authenticity from a 1790s grand...

Blu-ray: Pharaoh

Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh (Faraon) is a state-funded superprodukcja, a 152-minute Polish epic, set, incongruously,...

Wyn, Dwyer, McAteer, RSNO & Choirs, Diakun, Usher Hall,...

Carmina Burana isn’t a masterpiece: it’s primarily a bit of fun; fun to listen to, fun to play, really fun to sing.

Few and far...

Kenny Barron Trio, Ronnie Scott's review - a master of...

Kenny Barron, revered as the best jazz pianist around, is a perfect gentleman and a master of “cool” – a quality once described in great depth by...

Album: Body Count - Merciless

Rapper, actor and occasional media celebrity, Ice-T’s heavy metal band, Body Count have been around since the early ‘90s and have turned out some...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat review - jazz-themed docume...

The British writer and Africa specialist Michela Wrong recently wrote a whistle-stop summary of the upheavals that afflicted Congo in the early...