David Benedict
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Prom 3, CBeebies: A Musical Trip to the Moon review - a cele...
This year’s Proms for children were entitled “Off to the Moon...
Helen Schjerfbeck, Royal Academy review - watchful absences...
Light creeps under the church door. Entering as a slice of burning white, it softens and blues into the stone interior, seeming to make the walls...
Lights, Camera, Malta!, BBC Concert Orchestra, Malta review...
With sapphire blue waters, year-round sun and architecture that spans centuries and cultures, it’s little wonder than Malta is a favourite...
Prom 2, Bell, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Hrůša review – Boh...
Eighty years ago this summer, Neville Chamberlain’s indifference to the peoples of Czechoslovakia – “a quarrel in a far away country between...
Vic Marks: Original Spin review - trouble in Taunton
In cricket, timing is everything. Played a fraction early and that...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Peter Laughner
“As much as I love New York City, it’s all too obvious that Cleveland is about to become the musical focal point that the Big Apple has been on...
Gossip, SWG3, Glasgow - a reunion tour worth celebrating
If there was a downer during the giddy, gleeful Glasgow stop of Gossip’s recent run of shows, it was only when front...
Making Noise Quietly review - poetic if occasionally preciou...
Robert Holman’s 1986 Bush Theatre play – seen most recently in London at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012 – makes for a beautifully acted curio of a...
Prom 1, BBCSO, Canellakis review - space-age First Night
A new commission, a Romantic tone poem and a choral spectacular – standard fare for the First Night of the...