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Category: Soviet Union

• Classical Music Concert Concerto Culture London Russia Soviet Union Symphony War

  Noseda and the LSO at the Barbican review ****

  London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Roman Simovic (violin) Barbican Hall, 9th February 2020 Prokofiev – Symphony No 1 in D major Op 25 “Classical” Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 1 Op 19 Mussorgsky arr Rimsky-Korsakov – Prelude to “Khovanshchina” Shostakovich – Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op 70 The latest all Russian instalment in…

  May 20, 2020
• Classical Music Concert Culture London Piano Soviet Union

  Igor Levit plays Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues at the Barbican review *****

  Igor Levit Barbican Hall, 26th January 2020 Dmitri Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 If you going to be inspired by anyone to write a monumental piano piece than JS Bach is a good place to start, specifically his Well Tempered Clavier collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues.…

  March 10, 2020
• Capitalism Communism Culture Ideology London Politics Soviet Union Sport Theatre USA

  Ravens at the Hampstead Theatre review ***

  Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer Hampstead Theatre, 18th December 2019 I can see why Tom Morton-Smith would have alighted on the infamous chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in 1972 in Reykjavik. There are a ton of tomes on the subject and, after all, if it was good enough…

  February 3, 2020
• 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
• Amsterdam Animation art Culture Exhibition History Ideology Installation Politics South Africa Soviet Union Technology

  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019
• Biography London Soviet Union Theatre USA

  The Rubenstein Kiss at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

  The Rubinstein Kiss Southwark Playhouse, 9th April 2019 I liked this. A lot. Certainly more than I might have expected given the string of lukewarm reviews. I liked the way the important story was told, the structure, a later generation revisits and is shaped by its shared history, the three…

  April 21, 2019