Robert Beale
Articles By Robert Beale
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Our Mothers review - revisiting the horrors of Guatemala...
Director Cesar Diaz’s debut feature film was...
Britten Sinfonia, The Marian Consort, Milton Court review -...
Gesualdo was, in the words of New Yorker critic Alex Ross – “irrefutably badass”, a double murderer, sado-masochist and black magic enthusiast who...
Music Reissues Weekly: Little Girls - Valley Songs
The name, Caron and Michelle Maso explained to Los Angeles radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, was a literal description. “We’re both like five feet. We...
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review - a post-human para...
Planet of the Apes is the most artfully replenished franchise, from the original series’ elegant time-travel loop to the reboot’s rich,...
Sappho, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - a glitzy celeb...
Who is Sappho? What is she? Not much is known about the...
Gomyo, National Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, National Concer...
No soloist gets to perform Shostakovich’s colossal First Violin Concerto without mastery of its fearsome technical demands. But not all violinists...
The Winter's Tale, Royal Ballet review - what a story,...
If there is a more striking, more moving, more downright enjoyable way to experience...
Sansara, Manchester Collective, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester...
Manchester Collective have come a long way since their early days of chamber music in dark and dingy Salford basements and former MOT test centres...