Sebastian Scotney
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Celtic Connections 2020, Glasgow review - fine feast of Scot...
Celtic Connections, Scotland’s annual festival of folk, world and fusion music, has been brightening up dreich Glasgow Januaries...
Beethoven Discovery Day, Batiashvili, LSO, Rattle, Barbican...
#Beethoven250 is in full swing at the Barbican. Like most...
Onegin, Royal Ballet review - vivid and intelligent dance dr...
It’s no surprise that audiences love John Cranko’s Onegin, with its vividly economical narrative (close to...
Rags: The Musical, Park Theatre review - a timely, if predic...
“Take our country back!” is the rallying cry of the self-identified “real”...
Mahler's Eighth, CBSO, Gražinytė-Tyla, Symphony Hall Bi...
“Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound” wrote...
Flo & Joan, Soho Theatre review - entertaining wit and w...
Musical comedy siblings Nicola and Rosie Dempsey (...
Album: Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot
Remembrance of clubs past motivates Neil Tennant at 65. The melancholy and wit which gave ambiguity and amused...
Ilya Kaminsky: Deaf Republic - silence as 'a soul'...
"The deaf don’t believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing." This is one of two author’s "Notes" to Ilya Kaminsky’s latest...
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beloved - Where It Is
Commercially, The Beloved’s peak years kicked off in autumn 1989...
Jeet Thayil: Low – grief’s seedy distractions
Like many writers, Jeet Thayil is a bit of an outsider. And, if his track record is anything to go by, he has been happy to keep it that way. The...