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Category: London

• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture London Minimalism

  Music of the Spheres: Aurora Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Kate Wicks (production design), William Reynolds (lighting design)  Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5th June 2019 Max Richter – Journey (CP1919) Beethoven – Molto Adagio from String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 (Razumovsky) Thomas Adès – Concerto for violin & chamber orchestra (Concentric…

  June 28, 2019
• Acting Capitalism Culture Finance London Satire Theatre

  Serious Money at LAMDA review review ****

  Serious Money Sainsbury Theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, 4th June 2019 Last minute jaunt to Hammersmith to see one of LAMDA’s summer season offerings. If there are times when you start fulminating about paying close to a ton for a cramped perch in a dingy West End…

  June 26, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics Germany London

  Stockhausen chamber music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion), Marco Stroppa (sound design) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2nd June 2019 Karlheinz Stockhausen Zyklus for percussion Mantra for 2 pianos with 12 antique cymbals, woodblock & 2 ring modulators (and shortwave radio/tape)  I confess. I was defeated by the performance of Donnerstag aus Licht by…

  June 25, 2019
• Culture London Manchester Theatre

  Harper Regan at the Tabard Theatre review ****

  Harper Regan Tabard Theatre, 1st June 2019 The Tourist’s first visit to the Tabard Theatre in leafy Chiswick, which given its proximity, its longevity, it has been around since 1985, and the quirky breadth of its repertoire, new plays and revivals, own and other productions, must count as a massive…

  June 25, 2019
• Culture London Politics Power Satire Theatre

  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at the Park Theatre review **

  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson Park Theatre, 31st May 2019 Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is probably going to be your next Prime Minister, chosen by a hundred thousand or so duffers average age in the 70s. Sovereignty? Democracy? If that doesn’t make you laugh nothing will. Anyway the…

  June 22, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Culture Early Music London Poetry Renaissance

  Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Barbican review *****

  Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon (conductor), Peter Sellars (director)  Barbican Hall, 23rd May 2019 Much taken with our last exposure to Peter Sellars distinctive way with dramatising the choral after the OAE St John Passion at the Festival Hall last month, BUD and I set off, fuelled as usual…

  June 15, 2019
• Acting Community Culture Family History London Place Theatre USA

  Our Town at the Open Air Theatre review ****

  Our Town Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, 23rd May 2019 Now I’ll be honest, until I started taking this theatre malarkey seriously, I had only the faintest idea of what Thornton Wilder’s most famous play, Our Town, was about. And even going in to this production at the Open Air…

  June 12, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Concerto Contemporary Classical Culture Enlightenment Germany London Opera Symphony

  Britten Sinfonia Beethoven cycle at the Barbican Hall review *****

  Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Ades (conductor), Barbican Hall, 21st and 26th May 2019 Lawrence Power (viola) Eamonn Dougan (director) Jennifer France (soprano) Christianne Stotjin (alto) Ed Lyon (tenor) Matthew Rose (bass) Britten Sinfonia Voices Choir of Royal Holloway Beethoven – Symphony No 7 in A majpor, Op 92 Gerald Barry –…

  June 10, 2019
• Crime Culture Georgian London Morality Musicals Opera Politics Theatre

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) Lyric Hammersmith, 22nd May 2019 Never seen John Gay’s ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera, though have seen Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera, on which it is based, a couple of times. Have been waiting patiently for a production of Britten’s 1948…

  June 10, 2019
• Business Culture Family London Memory Theatre USA

  Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic review *****

  Death of a Salesman Young Vic, 17th May 2019 For those of you who, understandably, don’t have the time or inclination to filter through the vast opportunity set that is the London “subsidised” theatre sector and just want to spend your hard-earned coin on a proven theatrical production then the…

  June 9, 2019