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WEB6 days ago · Here comes the flood: Bob Dylan's 1974 Live Recordings Tim Cumming Wednesday, 18 September 2024 Lighters at the ready, because here comes the flood. Drawn from 16-track tape, 1/4in reels and lo-fi sound board cassettes that are now a half century old, the 27 CDs of 431 performances, 417 of them previously unreleased, of Dylan and The Band’s 1974 arena tour of the US, is a set that challenges ...
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WEBProm 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys. Boyd Tonkin Friday, 13 September 2024. Out of emergencies may come revelations. Sir András Schiff has broken his leg, and we wish him a super-speedy recovery. At the Proms, his promised Art of Fugue will have to wait. Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, a past winner of the Chopin Prize ...
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WEBOne wonders what sitcom writers will do when supermarkets finally sweep the last corner shops away with nobody left old enough to buy cigarettes, nobody so offline that they buy newspapers and nobody eating sweets, priced out by sugar taxes. The convenience shop is already acquiring a patina of nostalgia, crowned by a warm glow of happier days.
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WEBProm 62, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, Bavarian RSO, Rattle review - sound over momentum. David Nice Saturday, 07 September 2024. Mahler’s Sixth is one of those apocalyptic megaliths that shouldn’t be approached too often by audiences or conductors. It’s been a constant in Simon Rattle’s treasury since 1989, when he first recorded it with ...
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WEBSherwood, Series 2, BBC One review - maybe time isn't such a great healer. Adam Sweeting Monday, 26 August 2024. The first series of James Graham’s Sherwood, shown in June 2022, introduced us to the Nottinghamshire town of Ashfield, a former mining community devastated by pit closures and the miserable …
The Lightest Element, Hampstead Theatre review - engrossing, but ...
WEB3 days ago · As the Hampstead Theatre stages Stella Feehily’s new play, The Lightest Element, which was originally commissioned by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the question of how to entertain as well as inform gets a contemporary twist as the playwright explores the themes of sexism and politics, as well as scientific discovery.The setting is historical, but the subject is as relevant as ever.
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WEBLa traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a serviceable revival. Alexandra Coghlan Tuesday, 10 September 2024. Later this autumn Richard Eyre’s La Traviata celebrates its 30th birthday. Not bad going for the director’s first ever foray into opera – a genre he admitted holding an “unreasonable prejudice against”.
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WEBSep 13, 2024 · Here comes the flood: Bob Dylan's 1974 Live Recordings Tim Cumming Wednesday, 18 September 2024 Lighters at the ready, because here comes the flood. Drawn from 16-track tape, 1/4in reels and lo-fi sound board cassettes that are now a half century old, the 27 CDs of 431 performances, 417 of them previously unreleased, of Dylan and The Band’s 1974 arena tour of the US, is a set that challenges ...
theartsdesk Q&A: young pianist Ignas Macknickas on appearing at …
WEB2 days ago · Of the pianist, let’s start – well, not at the very beginning – but at the point when Maknickas was nine years old, and performing his first concerto with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. “The concerto was quite easy technically, but it was fun,” he says drily. “The Lithuanian composer Julius Andrejevas wrote it for children
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