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Category: London

• Age Culture Family Ireland London Theatre

  The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Queens Theatre Hornchurch review ****

  The Beauty Queen of Leenane Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, 14th November 2019 From one side of London to the other. All on track until the very last gasp, so snuck in a few minutes late to this. A big thanks to the very helpful ushers at this friendly house. TBQOL isn’t…

  December 7, 2019
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  Pergolesi and Vivaldi: OAE at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****

  Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Katherine Watson (soprano), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Zoe Brookshaw (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment  Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11th November 2019 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) – Stabat Mater Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) – Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 No.2 Antonio Vivaldi…

  December 6, 2019
• Baroque Birds Classical Music Concert Culture Early Music London Piano

  Joanna MacGregor at the Wigmore Hall review ****

  Joanna MacGregor (piano) Wigmore Hall, 11th November 2019 Birds, Grounds, Chaconnes Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) – Le rappel des oiseaux François Couperin (1668-1733) – Les fauvétes plaintives Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – Le merle noir Jean-Philippe Rameau – La poule Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) – On an Overgrown Path X. The barn owl…

  December 5, 2019
• Chamber Music Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Electronics London Opera

  London Sinfonietta and Tansy Davies at Kings Place review ****

  London Sinfonietta, Richard Baker (conductor), Tansy Davies (electronics), Elaine Mitchener (mezzo soprano), Elizabeth Burley (piano), Sound Intermedia Kings Place, 9th November 2019 Tansy Davies – Salt box (2005) Tansy Davies – Loophole and Lynchpins (2002-3) Naomi Pinnock – everything does change (2012) Tansy Davies – The rule is love (2019) Tansy Davies – grind show (electric) (2007) Tansy Davies –…

  December 5, 2019
• Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture England London Myths Opera Restoration

  King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Cadogan Hall review ***

  London Concert Choir, Counterpoint, Mark Forkgen (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Bethany Partridge (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Way (tenor), Peter Willcock (baritone) Cadogan Hall, 7th November 2019 Henry Purcell – King Arthur Early afternoon spent in the company of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’s Joker before an…

  December 4, 2019
• Culture London Love Piano Shakespeare Theatre

  Alls Well That Ends Well at the Jermyn Street Theatre review *****

  All’s Well That Ends Well Jermyn Street Theatre, 6th November 2019 Hard to credit but the Tourist had never seen a production of AWTEW until now. Which made the pleasure in seeing Tom Littler’s pint sized production, in tandem with the Guildford Shakespeare Company, even sweeter. Wiki tells me that…

  December 3, 2019
• Class Culture Family India London Patriarchy Theatre Violence

  When the Crows Visit at the Kiln Theatre review ****

  When the Crows Visit Kiln Theatre, 6th November 2019 An adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, relocated to modern day India. Seems like a good idea no? It was. In fact better than I had expected even with its visible flaws.. Anupama Chandrasekhar has written a play that takes the Norwegian master…

  December 3, 2019
• Australia Contact Culture Film London Science Science Fiction Theatre Universe

  Solaris at the Lyric Hammersmith review ****

  Solaris Lyric Hammersmith, 2nd November 2019 One book, a Soviet TV adaptation, two films. And now a play. And, between us, the SO and I have all the bases covered. SO, a big fan of Stanislaw Lem’s ground-breaking 1961 dense sci-fi/horror novel, me, unusually tolerant of Tarkovsky’s high culture, languid…

  December 2, 2019
• Age Culture Family London Relationship Theatre

  Sydney and the Old Girl at the Park Theatre review ***

  Sydney and the Old Girl Park Theatre, 1st November 2019 After the resounding success of Madame Rubinstein at the Park Theatre a couple of years ago it was a pretty easy sell to get BUD, KCK and the SO along to the same venue to see our favourite potty-mouthed, near-octogenarian…

  December 2, 2019
• Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Piano Soviet Union Symphony

  Britten and Shostakovich: LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Denis Matsuev (piano) Barbican Hall, 31st October 2019 Britten – Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from ‘Peter Grimes’ Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No 2, Shostakovich – Symphony No 6 Right if I am ever to catch up I am going tp have to be…

  December 1, 2019