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Bryce Dessner and the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists at Queen Elizabeth Hall review ***

London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, Galya Bisengalieva (violin), Rakhi Singh (violin), Robert Ames (viola), Oliver Coates (cello) – Bryce Dessner (electric guitar) Queen Elizabeth Hall. 10th April 2018 Bryce Dessner – Aheym for string quartet Mica Levi – You belong to me for string quartet Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint for…

April 19, 2018
Baroque Classical Music Concert Culture London

Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at Wigmore Hall review ****

Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, 9th April 2018 JS Bach – Violin Sonatas 4, 5 and 2, BWV 1017, 1018 and 1015, Johan Jacob Froberger Suite No 12 in C minor for harpsichord, Biber – Violin Sonata No 5 in E minor, Mystery Sonatas Passacaglia in G…

April 19, 2018
Classical Music Concert Culture London

Beethoven and Shostakovich from the LSO at the Barbican review ****

London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Barbican Hall, 8th April 2018 Beethoven – Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 Shostakovich – Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65 I could be imagining it but the LSO seems to be notching up a gear, from its…

April 18, 2018
Architecture art Culture Exhibition London Photography Technology

Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery exhibition review ****

Andreas Gursky Hayward Gallery, 4th April 2018 Odds are you have seen one of Andreas Gursky’s giant, hypnotic, immersive photographs. He charts the relationship between man and environment, fiddling with perspective, highlighting the repetition of our own industry and locating the beautiful and the ugly, often simultaneously. His viewpoint is…

April 16, 2018
Contemporary Classical Culture Literature London Opera Theatre

Coraline at the Barbican Theatre review ****

Coraline Barbican Theatre, 7th April 2018 Was I the only person in the audience who knew nothing about Neil Gaiman’s 2003 cult children’s fantasy novella from whence came Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Coraline? It certainly felt like it. To be fair the provenance had dawned on me some time before the…

April 16, 2018
Classical Music Concert Culture London

Laura van der Heijden and Petr Limonov at Wigmore Hall review ***

Laura van der Heijden (cello), Petr Limonov (piano) Wigmore Hall, 2nd April 2018 Britten – Cello Sonata in C major, Op 65 Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 21st December 1960. Britten and Shostakovich are sharing a box at the Festival Hall. That’s right the two greatest…

April 15, 2018
Culture Design Exhibition London Tecnology

Hope to Nope exhibition at the Design Museum review ****

Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018 The Design Museum, 2nd April 2018 I have banged on before about how satisfying a trip to the Design Museum can be, for the building, (specifically that beautiful roof), the permanent collection and the exhibitions. Not cheap, though make yourself a child, student,…

April 14, 2018
Church Classical Music Concert Early Music London Renaissance

Tallis Scholars at St Johns Smith Square review ****

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) St John’s Smith Square, 31st March 2018 Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Surrexit pastor bonus Vidi speciosam Magnificat for double choir Missa pro defunctis Requiem Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Tota pulchra es Hei mihi, Domine Alonso Lobo (1555 -1617) Versa est in luctum Having dipped…

April 13, 2018
Exhibition London Photography

Another Kind of Life exhibition at the Barbican review ***

Another Kind of Life: Photography at the Margins Barbican Art Gallery, 29th March 2018 I am lucky I have the time to visit popular galleries at quieter times. For there are some which, by dint of the material they are presenting, seem to get extremely busy at certain times. There…

April 12, 2018
Culture London Theatre

Fanny and Alexander at the Old Vic review ****

Fanny and Alexander Old Vic Theatre, 4th April 2017 I WILL USE BLOCK CAPITAL FOR EMPHASIS AS WE SLIGHTLY UNHINGED KEYBOARD WARRIORS ARE WONT TO DO. FOR JUST £12 YOU CAN GO AND SEE ONE OF THE REMAINING PERFORMANCES OF FANNY AND ALEXANDER. That’s right. All seats for the last…

April 10, 2018

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