Edward Seckerson
Bio
Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.
Articles By Edward Seckerson
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Josh Ritter, Union Chapel review - strong songs and a boyish...
Josh Ritter is in his early forties. He has a two-decade career with 10 studio albums (and, incidentally, a First World War novel) to his name. He...
Il Segreto di Susanna/Iolanta, Opera Holland Park review - s...
Secrets, and the voluptuous, sensory pleasures they conceal, may unite Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna and...
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 that 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...