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Italian cinema's vigorous grand old man discusses #Kidnapped, conversion, anarchy and faith in cinema: Marco Bellocchio talks to Nick Hasted theartsdesk.com/film/theartsde…
★★★ Same old vibe, fresh sounds: French electronic dance stalwarts #Justice return from eight-year break in fine fettle Thomas H Green reviews new album #Hyperdrama theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
Swans, hamlets and bossa nova: this week's #Classical #CDs include a promising young pianist's debut disc, plus Finnish mythology and a trio of neglected British composers chosen by star trio @GrahamRickson @bernardlhughes @SebScotney theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★ '#Scheidegger found inspiration in the circus, in fun fairs, in peasantry and street urchins': @criticismism reviews Eye to Eye: Homage to Ernst Scheidegger at #MASILugano theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/ey…
★★★ Raj rage, old and new, flares in cricket dramedy #Testmatch @OrangeTreeThtr but winning performances cannot overcome a scattergun approach to a ragbag of issues finds @garynaylor85 theartsdesk.com/theatre/testma…
Here’s this week’s classical CD reviews from @theartsdesk with a couple from me alongside the customary great work from @SebScotney and @GrahamRickson
Here’s this week’s classical CD reviews from @theartsdesk with a couple from me alongside the customary great work from @SebScotney and @GrahamRickson
★★★★ Sci-fi with a sting in the tail: Cold War tensions turn hot in space thriller I.S.S. starring Ariana DeBose review by Justine Elias theartsdesk.com/film/iss-revie…
★★★★ Annie Clark transcends indie’s average leanings writes Cheri Amour on #AllBornScreaming #StVincent's new album theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★★★ Era-defining artist portraits at #MASILugano: @MarkSheeri19186 reviews Homage to Ernst #Scheidegger one of Switzerland's greatest photographers theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/ey…
★★★★ 'An absolute marvel of an album': longing, love and longevity as the #PetShopBoys resolutely refuse retirement @joemuggs reviews #Nonetheless theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★ Engagingly subversive pairing falls short: cellist Christian Pierre La Marca and breakdancer Yaman Okur, @stmartins_music explore cello repertoire in dance - unsuccessfully finds @Hallibee1 theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★★ @RidoutTimothy #MariaWłoszczowska @thetimbre #TinRuLai #TimPosner @wigmore_hall - High-voltage #Mozart and #Schoenberg, blended #Brahms, in a fascinating programme - David Nice experiences electrifying teamwork theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★★ @DevieilheSabine #MathieuPordoy @wigmore_hall - Enchantment in #Mozart and #Strauss, as the leading French soprano shines beyond diva excess, says @Rivers47 theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★ BLUE LIGHTS Series 2 @BBCOne - The engaging #Belfast cops are less tightly focused this time around, says Helen Hawkins, but this is still our best cop show despite its slacker structure theartsdesk.com/tv/blue-lights…
★★★★★ #STEPHEN - First feature by multi-media artist @MelanieManchot is breathtakingly good - ‘the most intelligent and compelling film I’ve seen in years’, says Sarah Kent - screening @BarbicanCentre w Q&A 25 April, then @newlynexchange theartsdesk.com/film-visual-ar…
★★★★ #Tuareg rockers @MdouMoctar are on fiery form in their new album FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE - ‘This album is the real deal’, says Guy Oddy @matadorrecords theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
‘An overarching theme of Coppola's work is that wherever there’s a world, there’s a girl trying to navigate it’ ★★★★ #PRISCILLA - The disc extras smartly contextualise #SofiaCoppola's eighth feature, says @tgharrry - now on @mubi DVD/Blu-Ray theartsdesk.com/film/dvdblu-ra…
‘Moments of seriousness are diluted by the jovial tone of most of the book' ★★★★ @JonnElledge A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 47 BORDERS - @bernardlhughes enjoys a journey through the byways of how lines on maps have shaped the modern world @Wildfirebks theartsdesk.com/books/jonn-ell…
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79K Followers 9K Following Chief Revenue Officer - Sales, Marketing, Success #FTW I have fun building teams. she/her/hersHere’s this week’s classical CD reviews from @theartsdesk with a couple from me alongside the customary great work from @SebScotney and @GrahamRickson
This week's pile. Do check out Madeleine Dring: theartsdesk.com/classical-musi… @deccaclassics @yunchanlim_ @NicolasPianist @SamuelAndreyev @DivineArtRecord @BIS_records @HelsinkiPhil @nmcrecordings @MZevGordon @LyritaRecords @simondcallaghan @bernardlhughes @SebScotney
So delighted my Precious Things are getting an outing in such good company. Looks a fantastic programme
And @JoMarshComposer - Batter my heart // @KimPorterMusic Pulchra es // @bernardlhughes Precious Things
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Teabags are handy, but good loose leaf tea made in a pot, drunk from a cup with a wide rim, cannot be beaten.
St Matthew Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review – moving and humble theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
I learned the words ‘flippant’ and ‘recalcitrant’ from my school reports
What’s something you always remember from one of your school reports? And did you prove it wrong or was the teacher spot on? Mine is: “I feel a bomb needs to placed under his chair to shake him from his daydreaming”
When the dedication on this bench first caught my eye I thought, 'Hmm, so it's dedicated to some obscure Greek composer guy.' Then my eyes reached the brackets and I realised he wasn't so obscure after all.
Terrace of a Café at Night' painting by Van Gogh, animated 📹 a_surotdinov
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Very proud to have reached a new level of marmalade-making incompetency. I've had the year of drinking marmalade. The year of bubbly marmalade. Many years of 'couldn't get my act together to put the sugar in' marmalade. And this year. Black marmalade. Taps fingers. Whistles.
The Traitors is back tonight and playwrights should be glued to it because contemporary theatre has a lot to learn from it. Think I’m kidding? Read on... thestage.co.uk/opinion/heres-…
Walking round Morrisons considering the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and feeling thoroughly dejected. Decided the situation called for Special Brew, a magnificent and much-maligned beverage.
I’m biased because I wrote “the detailed programme booklet” but, bloody hell, this is a glorious performance of the whole damn score. Treat yourself.
In case you missed it... we have a limited number of special edition 'Oklahoma!' LP sets signed by John Wilson on the front of the detailed programme booklet ✨ 🎵 🔗 Purchase here: chandos.net/products/catal… #Oklahoma #Musical #Album #JohnWilson
I'm pleased to announce that my #Schnittke book is now out in paperback, retailing at a very modest £34.39. @RoutledgeMusic routledge.com/The-Routledge-…
After gale-force storm winds come close to taking me out with the lid of a recycling bin (surely rivalling getting knocked over by a laundry van in the undignified deaths stakes), now the rainbow. It’s all going on in the Cotswolds this morning
Here’s my carol Winds through the olive trees, performed by @Epiphoni and @timboreader. Quite proud of this tune. youtu.be/P2iP8-7PIMc?si… #ChristmasMusic
A proud day, retweeted by the official @vizcomic! This is a good example of topical satire when I sent it in that LT’s self-destruction made laughably old hat by the time it was actually published
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On a cold dark night - or a warm bright one for that matter - thank goodness for @DianaHenryFood and her Baked sausages with apples, blackberries, rosemary, mustard and maple syrup.