REVIEW: Haydn London Symphony
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaydn London Symphony by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra promises a night full of emotion, a dynamic and delicate ensemble controlled by the skilful Domingo Hindoyan.
Category Music
REVIEW: 8 Songs for a Mad King
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a particular kind of attention that only comes from being in the room. Not the attention of the reviewer cataloguing programme notes, but something physical registering detail that critical distance would otherwise smooth over.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jen Chandler and James Heather
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Jen Chandler and James Heather, two performers in Learn From Us, which features people living with brain injury sharing their journeys and the lessons they have learnt in how to live through music, movement and projections.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Steven Bamidele
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Stephen Bamidele, a Nigerian-born, London-based singer, songwriter, musician, and producer.
REVIEW: Cured
Reading Time: 2 minutesLights, narration, action! Cured premieres in the Liverpool Royal Court with a statement on misogyny that sets the tone for the rest of the show.
REVIEW: Good Vibrations – A Celebration of the Beach Boys
Reading Time: 2 minutesCelebrating 60 years of Pet Sounds, the concert
began with the album performed in full in the first half, before moving on to a selection of the
band’s best-known hits in the second half, along with a few lesser-known songs for the die-
hard fans.
REVIEW: Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Porgy and Bess
Reading Time: 2 minutesA performance filled with energy and passion, from beginning to end. Scott Stroman’s direction of Porgy and Bess, from Miles Davis’ and Gil Evans’ jazz adaptation of the famous opera, is nothing short of spectacular. Starting with…
REVIEW: The Organ Project
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Guildhall School of Music presents a performance that is truly site-specific, with 5 unique pieces well deserving of their grand and illustrious setting, and yet like nothing the space has seen before. The organ project is a…
REVIEW: Dvořák ‘New World’ Symphony
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs ever when seeing this iteration of the ‘International’ Scottish Chamber Orchestra, from the first note to the last, these players are flawless. They have shown time and again this season just how talented a group they are, and they close the season in the same fashion, while tackling some challenging compositions.
REVIEW: YAMATO: Hito No Chikara
Reading Time: 2 minutes“You’ll run out of superlatives before they run out of energy”