Jessica Duchen
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Purcell's Playhouse, Bevan, Barokksolistene, Eike, Purc...
“What about the communication with the audience?” asked violinist and impresario Bjarte Eike in his First Person piece for theartsdesk...
Bronwyn Adcock: Currowan review - a fire foretold, a warning...
In 2019 Australia endured the hottest, driest year since records began and their bushfire season escalated with unprecedented intensity. The fires...
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall review - titanic talent shows his l...
It probably tells you all you need to know about Igor Levit that when a mobile phone pinged just before his encore, he neither ignored it, nor...
Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals, Modern Art Oxford and P...
I have powerful memories of performances by Marina Abramović. Back in 1977 at Documenta in Kassel,...
Aida, Royal Opera review - dour but disciplined
No gods, ancient Egyptian or otherwise; no sinister priest along the lines of Russia’s antichrist Patriarch Kiriil, sending soldiers to their...
The Big Moon, Oran Mor, Glasgow review - partying prevails d...
Presumably before setting out on their current tour the Big Moon smashed a few mirrors, walked under some ladders and crossed the paths of...
Album: Lambchop - The Bible
Lambchop’s 1997 breakthrough album took its title from Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Borrowing The Bible is a more purposefully...
Gurrelieder, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - everything in place,...
Schoenberg’s “Song of the Wood Dove” takes up a mere 11 of the 100 minutes of his epic Gurrelieder, though it’s a crucial narrative of...
Music Reissues Weekly: Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Art /...
The British music weeklies were clear about where the Sound-On-Sound LP and its singles fitted into the current musical topography when...