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★★★ Superb songs in Zeitgeist surfing show: Why Am I So Single? at Garrick Theatre might be exactly what the West End needs right now finds Gary Naylor 85 theartsdesk.com/theatre/why-am…
★★★ High energy techno and rave from synth craftsman #FloatingPoints needs your best speakers says Anglican Head Charge 🛸🫠 on new album #Cascade theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★★ Timberlake Wertenbaker's updated Our Country's Good takes particular aim at colonialism - it's a lively but patchy revival Lyric Hammersmith Theatre writes Helen Hawkins theartsdesk.com/theatre/our-co…
★★ Kate Winslet's shaky portrait of an iconic photographer fails to ignite finds Saskia Baron #Lee theartsdesk.com/film/lee-revie…
Exceptional Elgar from Vilde Frang & Pappano's LSO, plus a whole constellation of Planets: theartsdesk.com/classical-musi… review theartsdesk.com
This week's haul: theartsdesk.com/classical-musi… Bernard Hughes Sebastian Scotney Alpha Classics Arthur Ancelle Stewart Goodyear Andrew Litton BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Orchid Classics Bright Shiny Things Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
★★★★★ Passions translated into paint: Poets & Lovers National Gallery's first ever Van Gogh exhibition focuses on the last two years, in Provence theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/va…
★★★ The play that inspired a Netflix series is heartwarming, but needs more spice to bite writes Gary Naylor 85 on Kim's Convenience, Riverside Studios theartsdesk.com/theatre/kims-c…
Soft toys, starlings and tarantellas@ Graham Rickson 🇮🇪🇪🇺's regular classical #CD round up with Bernard Hughes Sebastian Scotney includes French piano duets, a sung ballet plus two discs of viola music theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★ Engrossing, enjoyable and quietly inspiring: Waleed Akhtar’s new play #TheRealOnes is about platonic love in a contemporary context writes Aleks Sierz Bush Theatre theartsdesk.com/theatre/real-o…
★★★★★ A concerto performance to treasure: Frang, London Symphony Orchestra, Pappano, Barbican Centre deliver outstanding Elgar and full orchestral throttle in Holst writes Alexandra Coghlan theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
Top-drawer R&B-inclined mod-beat. Bye Bye USA by Dagenham’s Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs wasn’t issued in 1964. Now, 60 years late, it is. On Hyperloop Records MD ANT. I’ve looked at it today for theartsdesk.com: theartsdesk.com/new-music/musi…
★★★★★ JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN - LEMONS, LIMES AND ORCHIDS - This is a deep, delicious dive into the many facets of love by the master songwriter, says Kathryn Reilly theartsdesk.com/new-music/albu…
★★★★ #Beethoven Sonata Cycle 1 Boris Giltburg Wigmore Hall - From the official first to the toughest - quite a launch for a series this pianist knows well, says David Nice theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★ Yuja @AnnaLapwood London Symphony Orchestra antoniopappanoconductor Barbican Centre - Full-strength fun on an evening of spectacle and swagger - Boyd Tonkin enjoys grace and power from two keyboard heroines theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…
★★★★★ MY FAVOURITE CAKE - Woman, love, and freedom: a 70-year-old widow liberates herself in authoritarian #Iran - ‘Go and see this film: it’s not only a work of art, it’s also a strike for freedom’, says Hugh Barnes Curzon Film theartsdesk.com/film/my-favour…
