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Album: Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood - Death Songbook
1+ week ago —...Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood - Death Songbook... ...Sebastian Rochford and Adrian Utley are in there too.... ...Most tracks were recorded at Cardiff’s Donald Gordon Theatre without... ...Otherwise, what’s heard is along the torch-song/Scott Walker lines...
theartsdesk.com > tv
Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop show despite a slacker structure
2+ day ago —...) is brought in by the chief superintendent to get results;... ...On the Mount Eden estate, two loyalist kingpins vie for supremacy... ...McCann) and former social worker Grace (Sian Brooke), the... ...the landscape: Lee Thompson (Seamus O’Hara), a former soldier who...
theartsdesk.com > books
Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review - a view from the boundaries
2+ day ago —...In A History of the World in 47 Borders, Jonn Elledge takes an ostensibly... ...look at issues like the International Date Line, why the Prime Meridian... ...it would prejudice other claims elsewhere), or the reason Washington DC... ...Elledge’s accounts of the development of medieval China, the Mongol...
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Anthracite, Netflix review - murderous mysteries in the French Alps
1+ week ago —...of 17-year-old Roxane Vial.... ...and Jesus Christ emerges, dribbling blood.... ...Police lieutenant Giovanna DeLuca (Camille Lou) is trying to rebuild... ...The Manson-esque figure is called Caleb (Stefano Cassetti, pictured...
theartsdesk.com > classical-music
Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - Mozart and Strauss enchantment
2+ day ago —...Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - Mozart... ...to Richard Strauss, Debussy and Poulenc.... ...In Mathieu Pordoy, Sabine Devieilhe has the perfect partner, and... ...of the greatest soprano of our time. - Buy Sabine Devieilhe, Mozart...
theartsdesk.com > theatre
Player Kings, Noel Coward Theatre review - inventive showcase for a peerless theatrical knight
1+ week ago —...Inventive director Robert Icke has now created Player Kings out of... ...And Sir John Falstaff, as Orson Welles proved in Chimes at Midnight... ...Player-kings abound in the text, from uneasy, ailing Henry IV, making... ...The scene where he and Hal playact being Henry IV and son, donning...
theartsdesk.com > new-music
Album: Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening
3+ day ago —...Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening | reviews, news & interviews A '... ...The previous solo piano solo album from Fred Hersch, one of the world... ...Now that Keith Jarrett, a stalwart of the ECM label, has stopped... ...last year for a duo album with Enrico Rava....
theartsdesk.com > new-music
Music Reissues Weekly: Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring, Nothing Else Matters
4+ day ago —...Now, two Linda Smith albums are reissued.... ...Linda Smith it was, according to this column, “stunning” and “significant... ...Nothing Else Matters is the more Young Marble Giants-ish of the two... ...Girls, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants – an intimate late-Seventies...
theartsdesk.com > tv
Baby Reindeer, Netflix review - a misery memoir disturbingly presented
6+ day, 1+ hour ago —...Richard Gadd won an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2016 with material... ...Reindeer, which he performed at the Fringe and then at the Bush Theatre... ...Martha is now played by the excellent actress Jessica Gunning, whose... ...His beautiful trans girlfriend, Teri (Nava Mau, pictured above),...
theartsdesk.com > classical-music
Watts, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Bignamini, Barbican review - blazing French masterpieces
5+ day, 13+ min ago —...Matthews, and Jader Bignamini, music director of the Detroit Symphony... ...Watts, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Bignamini, Barbican review... ...gave us a BBC Symphony Orchestra on top form, but there was nothing... ...Daniel Pailthorpe and 23-year-old clarinettist Ángel Martín Mora...