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ALBUM: ZIÚR
Indeed, Antifate is a kind of psychedelic cabaret. It’s conceived as an allegorical story about the medieval utopia of Cockaigne – a place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist. It’s definitely not music of comfort BEST OF 2020: CLASSICAL CDS Warner Classics now owns his back catalogue, releasing a giant box set (109 discs) to mark the 50 th anniversary of the conductor’s death. Barbirolli’s charismatic and emotive readings of music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mahler and Sibelius still convince. And there’s a mass of freshly remastered material from the 1950s, when Barbirolli BOLSHOI PRIMA AND VIOLINIST REPIN HAVE BABY Proud parents: Ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and violinist Vadim Repin are Russian megastars. The Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova gave birth in Moscow yesterday to a baby girl, the child of the celebrated violinist Vadim Repin. Weighing 3.1 POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused BLU-RAY: RADIO ON REVIEW Unfolding over a few wintry days centred on Saturday, 10 March 1979, Radio On is often painted as bleak, which is not quite accurate. B may end up as lonely and alienated at the end as he is at the beginning, when his live-in girlfriend (sullenly played by Sue-Jones Davies, a future mayor of Aberstywyth) leaves him, but there are grains of hopeEP: IMELDA MAY
Dublin’s Imelda May, who made her name as a superlative performer of high-energy rockabilly in a way that reflected the music’s partly Irish roots, has just released her first poetry recordings: nine punchy, moving, sometimes humourous and well-crafted spoken lyrics, mostly accompanied by subtle yet atmospheric strings. ARE VIDEO GAMES AN ART FORM? UNQUESTIONABLY It is 2017 and we are still having this conversation: are video games art? We have been using computers to play games for at least 55 years. Arguably the first true computer game, Spacewar!, was developed in 1962 at MIT, although simple games had been played on early mainframe computers as early as the 1950s. The first games with a narrative arrived in the early 1970s. SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day."ALBUM: ZIÚR
Indeed, Antifate is a kind of psychedelic cabaret. It’s conceived as an allegorical story about the medieval utopia of Cockaigne – a place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist. It’s definitely not music of comfort BEST OF 2020: CLASSICAL CDS Warner Classics now owns his back catalogue, releasing a giant box set (109 discs) to mark the 50 th anniversary of the conductor’s death. Barbirolli’s charismatic and emotive readings of music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mahler and Sibelius still convince. And there’s a mass of freshly remastered material from the 1950s, when Barbirolli BOLSHOI PRIMA AND VIOLINIST REPIN HAVE BABY Proud parents: Ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and violinist Vadim Repin are Russian megastars. The Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova gave birth in Moscow yesterday to a baby girl, the child of the celebrated violinist Vadim Repin. Weighing 3.1 POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused BLU-RAY: RADIO ON REVIEW Unfolding over a few wintry days centred on Saturday, 10 March 1979, Radio On is often painted as bleak, which is not quite accurate. B may end up as lonely and alienated at the end as he is at the beginning, when his live-in girlfriend (sullenly played by Sue-Jones Davies, a future mayor of Aberstywyth) leaves him, but there are grains of hopeEP: IMELDA MAY
Dublin’s Imelda May, who made her name as a superlative performer of high-energy rockabilly in a way that reflected the music’s partly Irish roots, has just released her first poetry recordings: nine punchy, moving, sometimes humourous and well-crafted spoken lyrics, mostly accompanied by subtle yet atmospheric strings. ARE VIDEO GAMES AN ART FORM? UNQUESTIONABLY It is 2017 and we are still having this conversation: are video games art? We have been using computers to play games for at least 55 years. Arguably the first true computer game, Spacewar!, was developed in 1962 at MIT, although simple games had been played on early mainframe computers as early as the 1950s. The first games with a narrative arrived in the early 1970s. SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al.THE ARTS DESK
The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations BOSTRIDGE, CBSO, SEAL, SYMPHONY HALL REVIEW 1 day ago · The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra believes that its current post-lockdown summer series features the largest orchestra currently performing live in the UK. It’s not an easy claim to verify, and the full string section certainly wasn’t on stage for this matinee performance under the orchestra’s associate conductorMichael Seal.
BRITISH BALLET CHARITY GALA, ROYAL ALBERT HALL REVIEW 4 hours ago · The Royal Albert Hall – 150 years old this year and with a commemorative £5 coin to prove it – is a great space for many kinds of spectacle but has done few favours for ballet. I make an exception for Derek Deane’s in-the-round Swan Lake, if only on the grounds of its having been seen by 750,000 people many of whom might never have set foot in an actual theatre.ALBUM: JULIAN LAGE
4 hours ago · Expectations are high with Julian Lage; they always have been. The guitarist is one of the special ones: born on Christmas Day (1987)appearing with Carlos Santana at age seven a documentary made about him at eightclocked by Gary Burton at the Grammy awards at the cusp of his teensand performing in Burton’s group at an age when he still needed parental chaperoning. LUPIN, PART 2, NETFLIX REVIEW 7 hours ago · He’s also a gentleman thief and master of disguise himself, as he displays in multiple disappearing acts, sleights of hand and bewildering stunts in this French-made series. This five-episode Part 2 is really a season-ette, since it’s the second half of the first part which appeared in JanuaryALBUM: GARBAGE
With songs taking on capitalism, climate change, misogyny, racism and police brutality, No Gods No Masters is a no holds barred, politically charged firecracker of a record - one which is as brutal, messy and vulnerable as the human condition. Despite its songs pre-dating the pandemic - the band’s last day of recording together was in March 2020, before the world went into lockdown - it’s UCHIDA, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW 1 day ago · Last night, ending 13 years as the orchestra’s music director, Salonen returned to the purest source, Bach, cannily but also movingly referencing two of his predecessors in the post, Klemperer and Sinopoli, in two arrangements, and ended where the first of these farewell concerts started, with Beethoven in C major, homaging another early partnership, with the wonderful Mitsuko Uchida. FIRST PERSON: DIRECTOR MARIA ABERG ON DRAWING FRESH 4 hours ago · When theatres in the UK closed last March, I found myself in a vacuum. Having been a freelance theatre director for over 15 years, I was used to busy – juggling a hectic schedule of directing shows with the reality of being a mum to two toddlers. Inspiration was something I might find in between opening nights, meetings and nursery runs – if I was lucky. EUGENE ONEGIN, GARSINGTON OPERA REVIEW Peasant harvesters enter from the facsimile of Lady Ottoline Morrell’s Garsington garden to the right (stage left) of the state-of-the-art pavilion and, splendidly led by a solo tenor (Dominick Felix), burst into song. The temptation is to burst into tears, for this is the first time, surely, any of us has heard a rich, full chorus live for over a year. ALBUM: CROWDED HOUSE More than three decades after their acclaimed, self-titled debut, Crowded House has grown from a trio to a quintet. In addition to the group’s lead singer, main songwriter and founding member, Neil Finn, the current incarnation of the band includes co-founder and bassist Nick Seymour, keyboardist (and former Crowded House producer) Mitchell Froom, plus Finn’s sons Liam on guitar/vocals and THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panic attacks in BRONFMAN, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW Bronfman ( pictured below with Salonen) is a master who can roar like a lion – in the case of the Liszt Concerto, a rather comical one prefiguring the proud beast of Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals – and coo like any sucking dove in transcendental reverie. It doesn’t matter that swathes of this work make us laugh now withtheir
DIE WALKÜRE, LONGBOROUGH REVIEW The cast, like the production, sounds better than it looks. After a tepid start Sarah Marie Kramer and Peter Wedd are a fine, emotionally intense pair of lover-twins, while looking more like father and daughter. Perhaps make-up, involving touch, is still against the rules. Paul Carey Jones is a musically rich, dark-sounding Wotan, buta wooden
ANNE BOLEYN, CHANNEL 5 REVIEW "Get out!" The order, spoken some way into the third and final episode of Channel 5's entry into the Tudor drama sweepstakes, Anne Boleyn, certainly seizes one's attention.Not only is our doomed heroine snapping under pressure on the way to one of history's most-chronicled deaths, but her command to Thomas Cromwell marks one of the very few times across nearly three largely prosaic hours thatALBUM: ZIÚR
It’s funny how the most high tech music can sound very traditional. In the case of producer / instrumentalist / occasional singer Ziúr, it’s the tradition of her hometown of Berlin that is expressed in her whirrs, clangs and mutated voices. Here – as on her previous records with British labels Planet Mu and Objects Limited and Canada’s Infinite machine, and like most of the roster of POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer BEFORE WE DIE, CHANNEL 4 REVIEW Perhaps inspired by its ever-intriguing Walter Presents strand, Channel 4’s new thriller Before We Die is based on a Swedish original called Innan vi dör (“before we die” in Swedish).The action has been transplanted to Bristol, whose buildings, bridges and narrow streets have been rendered atmospheric with rich colour textures and stylish visual compositions. KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panic attacks in BRONFMAN, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW Bronfman ( pictured below with Salonen) is a master who can roar like a lion – in the case of the Liszt Concerto, a rather comical one prefiguring the proud beast of Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals – and coo like any sucking dove in transcendental reverie. It doesn’t matter that swathes of this work make us laugh now withtheir
DIE WALKÜRE, LONGBOROUGH REVIEW The cast, like the production, sounds better than it looks. After a tepid start Sarah Marie Kramer and Peter Wedd are a fine, emotionally intense pair of lover-twins, while looking more like father and daughter. Perhaps make-up, involving touch, is still against the rules. Paul Carey Jones is a musically rich, dark-sounding Wotan, buta wooden
ANNE BOLEYN, CHANNEL 5 REVIEW "Get out!" The order, spoken some way into the third and final episode of Channel 5's entry into the Tudor drama sweepstakes, Anne Boleyn, certainly seizes one's attention.Not only is our doomed heroine snapping under pressure on the way to one of history's most-chronicled deaths, but her command to Thomas Cromwell marks one of the very few times across nearly three largely prosaic hours thatALBUM: ZIÚR
It’s funny how the most high tech music can sound very traditional. In the case of producer / instrumentalist / occasional singer Ziúr, it’s the tradition of her hometown of Berlin that is expressed in her whirrs, clangs and mutated voices. Here – as on her previous records with British labels Planet Mu and Objects Limited and Canada’s Infinite machine, and like most of the roster of POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer BEFORE WE DIE, CHANNEL 4 REVIEW Perhaps inspired by its ever-intriguing Walter Presents strand, Channel 4’s new thriller Before We Die is based on a Swedish original called Innan vi dör (“before we die” in Swedish).The action has been transplanted to Bristol, whose buildings, bridges and narrow streets have been rendered atmospheric with rich colour textures and stylish visual compositions. KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November.THE ARTS DESK
The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations THE FATHER - GRIPPING DEMENTIA DRAMA 4 hours ago · His stage play Le Père was widely praised, made its way to Broadway and, following the success, the young French director has adapted it into The Father, a big statement film debut that places the audience in the position of an ageing dementia sufferer.Adaptation sceptics can shed their fears. This is a cinematic achievement that towers in its own right. BOSTRIDGE, CBSO, SEAL, SYMPHONY HALL REVIEW 7 hours ago · The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra believes that its current post-lockdown summer series features the largest orchestra currently performing live in the UK. It’s not an easy claim to verify, and the full string section certainly wasn’t on stage for this matinee performance under the orchestra’s associate conductor Michael Seal. UCHIDA, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW 6 hours ago · Last night, ending 13 years as the orchestra’s music director, Salonen returned to the purest source, Bach, cannily but also movingly referencing two of his predecessors in the post, Klemperer and Sinopoli, in two arrangements, and ended where the first of these farewell concerts started, with Beethoven in C major, homaging another early partnership, with the wonderful Mitsuko Uchida. THE FATHER - GRIPPING DEMENTIA DRAMA 9 hours ago · Florian Zeller: the name might not be familiar in the world of cinema. But watch this space. His stage play Le Père was widely praised, made its way to Broadway and, following the success, the young French director has adapted it into The Father, a big statement film debut that places the audience in the position of an ageing dementia sufferer. Adaptation skeptics can shed their fears.ALBUM: MAROON 5
17 hours ago · Well this is bleak. Seven studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, one remix album, three EPs, 33 singles, 23 music videos, 120 million sales and streams well into the tens of billions seem to have completely erased what personality Maroon 5 might ever have had.ALBUM: GARBAGE
1 day ago · At no point in their near-30 year career have “shy” or “retiring” been adjectives you could apply to Garbage - and yet, on this their seventh record, the Scottish-American rockers go to places that they never have before. With songs taking on capitalism, climate change, misogyny, racism and police brutality, No Gods No Masters is a no holds barred, politically charged firecracker of aNOBODY REVIEW
10 hours ago · Indeed, screenwriter Derek Kolstad created the Wick franchise. Nobody is a crisp 90 minutes of nearly-nonstop mayhem, with no time for the devious plotting or subtle character traits familiar from Odenkirk’s work as Saul Goodman. He plays Hutch Mansell, a suburban family man in MARK THOMAS, SOHO THEATRE 1 day ago · Mark Thomas comes on stage unannounced. It's not a show of humility – rather, he told us, amused at his own mistake, that his hearing isn't what it used to be and he had misheard his music cue. It was a modest start to his new show 50 Things About Us, which he is giving a runout at Soho Theatre before touring with it later inthe year.
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9 hours ago · Comedian Rachel Sennott stars as Danielle, a conflicted, bisexual twenty-something college student who's taking money she doesn't really need from a sugar daddy who isn't who she thinks he is. Emma Seligman’s debut feature, which began as a short in her film studies degree at New York University, is full of energy in its exploration of the dynamics of sex, power and career, with loxand
THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations BRONFMAN, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW Bronfman ( pictured below with Salonen) is a master who can roar like a lion – in the case of the Liszt Concerto, a rather comical one prefiguring the proud beast of Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals – and coo like any sucking dove in transcendental reverie. It doesn’t matter that swathes of this work make us laugh now withtheir
TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panic attacks in ANNE BOLEYN, CHANNEL 5 REVIEW "Get out!" The order, spoken some way into the third and final episode of Channel 5's entry into the Tudor drama sweepstakes, Anne Boleyn, certainly seizes one's attention.Not only is our doomed heroine snapping under pressure on the way to one of history's most-chronicled deaths, but her command to Thomas Cromwell marks one of the very few times across nearly three largely prosaic hours thatALBUM: ZIÚR
It’s funny how the most high tech music can sound very traditional. In the case of producer / instrumentalist / occasional singer Ziúr, it’s the tradition of her hometown of Berlin that is expressed in her whirrs, clangs and mutated voices. Here – as on her previous records with British labels Planet Mu and Objects Limited and Canada’s Infinite machine, and like most of the roster of IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day." POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panic attacks in BRONFMAN, PHILHARMONIA, SALONEN, RFH REVIEW Bronfman ( pictured below with Salonen) is a master who can roar like a lion – in the case of the Liszt Concerto, a rather comical one prefiguring the proud beast of Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals – and coo like any sucking dove in transcendental reverie. It doesn’t matter that swathes of this work make us laugh now withtheir
DIE WALKÜRE, LONGBOROUGH REVIEW The cast, like the production, sounds better than it looks. After a tepid start Sarah Marie Kramer and Peter Wedd are a fine, emotionally intense pair of lover-twins, while looking more like father and daughter. Perhaps make-up, involving touch, is still against the rules. Paul Carey Jones is a musically rich, dark-sounding Wotan, buta wooden
ANNE BOLEYN, CHANNEL 5 REVIEW "Get out!" The order, spoken some way into the third and final episode of Channel 5's entry into the Tudor drama sweepstakes, Anne Boleyn, certainly seizes one's attention.Not only is our doomed heroine snapping under pressure on the way to one of history's most-chronicled deaths, but her command to Thomas Cromwell marks one of the very few times across nearly three largely prosaic hours thatALBUM: ZIÚR
It’s funny how the most high tech music can sound very traditional. In the case of producer / instrumentalist / occasional singer Ziúr, it’s the tradition of her hometown of Berlin that is expressed in her whirrs, clangs and mutated voices. Here – as on her previous records with British labels Planet Mu and Objects Limited and Canada’s Infinite machine, and like most of the roster of POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer BEFORE WE DIE, CHANNEL 4 REVIEW Perhaps inspired by its ever-intriguing Walter Presents strand, Channel 4’s new thriller Before We Die is based on a Swedish original called Innan vi dör (“before we die” in Swedish).The action has been transplanted to Bristol, whose buildings, bridges and narrow streets have been rendered atmospheric with rich colour textures and stylish visual compositions. KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November.ALBUM: GARBAGE
1 day ago · At no point in their near-30 year career have “shy” or “retiring” been adjectives you could apply to Garbage - and yet, on this their seventh record, the Scottish-American rockers go to places that they never have before. With songs taking on capitalism, climate change, misogyny, racism and police brutality, No Gods No Masters is a no holds barred, politically charged firecracker of aALBUM: JAMES
James, and Tim Booth in particular, have always been too genuinely, gauchely odd to be hip – outsiders at the Madchester rave yet responsible for one of its biggest anthems, “Sit Down”, then shedding their skin for suppler, sexual territory with Laid, an Eno collaboration which opened their sound and self-image into something both gauzier and raw, but trailed behind his stadium-ambient CLASSICAL CDS: THREE GREAT CONDUCTORS REMEMBERED, MAHLER Big box sets, a symphonic swansong in miniature and contemporary music for piano trio. Classical CDs reviews by Graham Rickson THE BEAST MUST DIE, BRITBOX REVIEW 1 day ago · However, Britbox has produced, or co-produced, series including The Pembrokeshire Murders and the forthcoming A Spy Among Friends, and The Beast Must Die is the first drama to be shot for Britbox UK. It’s been adapted from the 1938 novel by Nicholas Blake (the pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis), and factoid-fans may be fascinated to learn that it was previously filmed by Claude Chabrol in 1969. MARK THOMAS, SOHO THEATRE 1 day ago · Mark Thomas comes on stage unannounced. It's not a show of humility – rather, he told us, amused at his own mistake, that his hearing isn't what it used to be and he had misheard his music cue. It was a modest start to his new show 50 Things About Us, which he is giving a runout at Soho Theatre before touring with it later inthe year.
BANK JOB – AN INSPIRATIONAL LOOK AT FINANCE 1 day ago · A fun film about finance – really? From the very first frame I was hooked on this can-do documentary; it’s that good. A young family – parents, Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell, two kids and two dogs – gather at the front door of their Victorian terraced house in Walthamstow and grin sheepishly to camera. “This is what acting is”, Dan tells his daughter Esme, “it’s cold, it’s REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: DONOVAN Early last month, Donovan issued his extraordinary new single “I am the Shaman”. Recorded at David Lynch’s Los Angeles studio, it was produced by the polymath director and fellow transcendental meditation devotee. The accompanying video was also directed by Lynch. The powerful “I am the Shaman” haunts. It also confirms that Donovan remains an active force. BALANCHINE AND ROBBINS, THE ROYAL BALLET REVIEW People often ask why it is that in ballet there are different casts on different nights, a practice alien to opera, musicals and theatre. The most obvious reason is practical. Ballet companies keep a number of principal dancers on salary who need regularly to strut their stuff. Another reason is that dancers develop distinct individual qualities – technical, musical and dramatic – which DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS, MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE, THE Did you wonder what all those creative musicians and artists did when they couldn’t perform in public last winter? Some of them started making films. Putting film of yourself online was, after all, a way of communicating with an audience, and had the bonus of being a potential promotional shop window for your work once people were allowed back in venues again. Manchester Collective, true to GROSVENOR, RSNO, CHAN, GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL ONLINE By chance, I started watching this streamed concert shortly after hearing a live BBC broadcast of the Philharmonia playing in front of an audience for the first time in over a year. Much though I love the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, steadfast companion over many Edinburgh winters, from student standby to bus pass, there is no doubt where I would have rather been. THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day." POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused SPIRAL, SERIES 8 FINALE, BBC FOUR REVIEW by Adam Sweeting Sunday, 31 January 2021. Share. End of an era: Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) and Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBC Four) at least ensured that justice was done. If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBCFour) at least
MENTAL: A HISTORY OF THE MADHOUSE, BBC FOUR But the film wasn’t all gloom and doom; its focus was on High Royds in Yorkshire, acknowledged as one of the more enlightened establishments and for many years a world leader in research into treatment of the mentally ill. Opened in 1888, it was one of the very last asylums to close, in 2003, and at its height was like a smalltown in itself
REBECKA MARTINSSON: ARCTIC MURDERS, MORE4 REVIEW Rebecka Martinsson (Ida Engvoll) is not a detective but a lawyer whose credentials as an eccentric outrider were swiftly established. She had disengaged sex with her partner then at her posh firm Meijer and Ditzinger greeted a promotion with an instant demand for much more cash. “That’s exactly why we want you on board,” said her boss THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day." POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused SPIRAL, SERIES 8 FINALE, BBC FOUR REVIEW by Adam Sweeting Sunday, 31 January 2021. Share. End of an era: Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) and Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBC Four) at least ensured that justice was done. If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBCFour) at least
MENTAL: A HISTORY OF THE MADHOUSE, BBC FOUR But the film wasn’t all gloom and doom; its focus was on High Royds in Yorkshire, acknowledged as one of the more enlightened establishments and for many years a world leader in research into treatment of the mentally ill. Opened in 1888, it was one of the very last asylums to close, in 2003, and at its height was like a smalltown in itself
REBECKA MARTINSSON: ARCTIC MURDERS, MORE4 REVIEW Rebecka Martinsson (Ida Engvoll) is not a detective but a lawyer whose credentials as an eccentric outrider were swiftly established. She had disengaged sex with her partner then at her posh firm Meijer and Ditzinger greeted a promotion with an instant demand for much more cash. “That’s exactly why we want you on board,” said her boss BEST OF 2020: CLASSICAL CDS Warner Classics now owns his back catalogue, releasing a giant box set (109 discs) to mark the 50 th anniversary of the conductor’s death. Barbirolli’s charismatic and emotive readings of music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mahler and Sibelius still convince. And there’s a mass of freshly remastered material from the 1950s, when Barbirolli CLASSICAL CDS: THREE GREAT CONDUCTORS REMEMBERED, MAHLER Big box sets, a symphonic swansong in miniature and contemporary music for piano trio. Classical CDs reviews by Graham Rickson DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS, MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE, THE 18 hours ago · Did you wonder what all those creative musicians and artists did when they couldn’t perform in public last winter? Some of them started making films. Putting film of yourself online was, after all, a way of communicating with an audience, and had the bonus of being a potential promotional shop window for your work once people were allowed back in venues again. Manchester Collective, BALANCHINE AND ROBBINS, THE ROYAL BALLET REVIEW 10 hours ago · People often ask why it is that in ballet there are different casts on different nights, a practice alien to opera, musicals and theatre. The most obvious reason is practical. Ballet companies keep a number of principal dancers on salary who need regularly to strut their stuff. Another reason is that dancers develop distinct individual qualities – technical, musical and dramatic –which
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20 hours ago · The latest album from Marina Diamandis, her fifth, is a startling explosion of vim and attitude. It mingles speeding, wordy, indie-tinted dance-pop bangers, tilting at all manner of contemporary ills, with sudden moments of broken-hearted piano-led contemplation. When she last appeared two years ago, it was with the lengthy Love + Fear album, Paloma Faith-ish songs whose tastefulness masked REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: DONOVAN Early last month, Donovan issued his extraordinary new single “I am the Shaman”. Recorded at David Lynch’s Los Angeles studio, it was produced by the polymath director and fellow transcendental meditation devotee. The accompanying video was also directed by Lynch. The powerful “I am the Shaman” haunts. It also confirms that Donovan remains an active force. GROSVENOR, RSNO, CHAN, GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL ONLINE 10 hours ago · By chance, I started watching this streamed concert shortly after hearing a live BBC broadcast of the Philharmonia playing in front of an audience for the first time in over a year. Much though I love the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, steadfast companion over many Edinburgh winters, from student standby to bus pass, there is no doubt where I would have rather been. BLU-RAY: THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI It is an ironic fact that the most celebrated of auteurs to emerge during Hong Kong’s ‘Second Wave’ of directors in the 1980s, and indeed to emerge whatsoever from the administrative region, did not originate from within its bounds. Born in Shanghai, and the son of a sailor and a housewife, Wong Kar Wai’s parents took the bold decision to emigrate to British-ruled Hong Kong on the eve EUGENE ONEGIN, GARSINGTON OPERA REVIEW Peasant harvesters enter from the facsimile of Lady Ottoline Morrell’s Garsington garden to the right (stage left) of the state-of-the-art pavilion and, splendidly led by a solo tenor (Dominick Felix), burst into song. The temptation is to burst into tears, for this is the first time, surely, any of us has heard a rich, full chorus live for over a year. TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW 1 day ago · Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panicattacks in
THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day." POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer SPIRAL, SERIES 8 FINALE, BBC FOUR REVIEW by Adam Sweeting Sunday, 31 January 2021. Share. End of an era: Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) and Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBC Four) at least ensured that justice was done. If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBCFour) at least
MENTAL: A HISTORY OF THE MADHOUSE, BBC FOUR But the film wasn’t all gloom and doom; its focus was on High Royds in Yorkshire, acknowledged as one of the more enlightened establishments and for many years a world leader in research into treatment of the mentally ill. Opened in 1888, it was one of the very last asylums to close, in 2003, and at its height was like a smalltown in itself
REBECKA MARTINSSON: ARCTIC MURDERS, MORE4 REVIEW Rebecka Martinsson (Ida Engvoll) is not a detective but a lawyer whose credentials as an eccentric outrider were swiftly established. She had disengaged sex with her partner then at her posh firm Meijer and Ditzinger greeted a promotion with an instant demand for much more cash. “That’s exactly why we want you on board,” said her boss THE ARTS DESKTODAYNEW MUSICOPERAFILMCLASSICALTHEATRE The Arts Desk’s team of professional critics offer unrivalled review coverage, in-depth interviews and features on popular music, classical, art, theatre, comedy, opera, comedy and dance. Dedicated art form pages, readers’ comments, What’s On and our user-friendly theatre and film recommendations IL TURCO IN ITALIA, GLYNDEBOURNE REVIEW The new Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il turco in Italia has a truly winning smile on its face and a spring and a dance in its musical step. It is brimful of fun and good ideas, conveying the sense that a lot of joy has been had in its making. As one cast member tweeted during rehearsals a couple of weeks ago: "I have not stopped laughing and living my best life all day." POINTS OF DEPARTURE, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW They stand in a row, nine of them, in a long, strange corridor between rows of stacked, palleted, planked wood and the red brick wall of an endless warehouse. Nine tripods, each two humans high, with a spinning helicopter head, double-ended by conical horns that emanate a gentle angelic howling or lower end drone-hums. Eyes closed – and being music-geeky about it – this carefully KEEPING FAITH, SERIES 3, BBC ONE REVIEW Hannah Daniel as Cerys Jones, Eve Myles as Faith Howells. After arriving with a bang in 2018, Keeping Faith ( BBC One) disappointed many (though not all) of its fans with 2019’s second series. It’s had a bit of a breather before this third – and final – series, first seen in its Welsh version Un Bore Mercher on S4C last November. LPO, JUROWSKI, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL For many of us, this was bound to be an emotional evening. Noëlle Mann, doyenne of all things Prokofievian on the editorial, archival, teaching and performing fronts, died peacefully at home last Friday, and it was to her that Vladimir Jurowski dedicated a typically bold programme of Prokofiev's late epic for cello and orchestra, the Symphony-Concerto, and a big but rather less focused SECRET STATE, SERIES FINALE, C4 Maybe they really are that clever at Channel 4. Where Leveson has investigated the invisible nexus connecting the press, the police and Westminster, Secret State has delivered its verdict on a comparable ratking of vested interests linking government, banks, oil, the military, defence contractors, MI6, old uncle Tom Cobbleigh et al. ALI SMITH: SUMMER REVIEW It is no surprise, given her Cambridge Intellectual literary style, that Ali Smith’s Summer is multi-layered, referential, and filled with cameos from giants in the fields of art and science. It is arguably the best of the four novels in her Seasonal Quartet, pulling through the threads from the previous three, without opting for easy conclusions or tying all the ends together neatly. Summer SPIRAL, SERIES 8 FINALE, BBC FOUR REVIEW by Adam Sweeting Sunday, 31 January 2021. Share. End of an era: Joséphine Karlsson (Audrey Fleurot) and Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBC Four) at least ensured that justice was done. If this had to be the end of Spiral, the final episodes of Series 8 ( BBCFour) at least
MENTAL: A HISTORY OF THE MADHOUSE, BBC FOUR But the film wasn’t all gloom and doom; its focus was on High Royds in Yorkshire, acknowledged as one of the more enlightened establishments and for many years a world leader in research into treatment of the mentally ill. Opened in 1888, it was one of the very last asylums to close, in 2003, and at its height was like a smalltown in itself
REBECKA MARTINSSON: ARCTIC MURDERS, MORE4 REVIEW Rebecka Martinsson (Ida Engvoll) is not a detective but a lawyer whose credentials as an eccentric outrider were swiftly established. She had disengaged sex with her partner then at her posh firm Meijer and Ditzinger greeted a promotion with an instant demand for much more cash. “That’s exactly why we want you on board,” said her boss BEST OF 2020: CLASSICAL CDS Warner Classics now owns his back catalogue, releasing a giant box set (109 discs) to mark the 50 th anniversary of the conductor’s death. Barbirolli’s charismatic and emotive readings of music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mahler and Sibelius still convince. And there’s a mass of freshly remastered material from the 1950s, when BarbirolliALBUM: MARINA
8 hours ago · The latest album from Marina Diamandis, her fifth, is a startling explosion of vim and attitude. It mingles speeding, wordy, indie-tinted dance-pop bangers, tilting at all manner of contemporary ills, with sudden moments of broken-hearted piano-led contemplation. When she last appeared two years ago, it was with the lengthy Love + Fear album, Paloma Faith-ish songs whose tastefulness masked DARK DAYS, LUMINOUS NIGHTS, MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE, THE 6 hours ago · Did you wonder what all those creative musicians and artists did when they couldn’t perform in public last winter? Some of them started making films. Putting film of yourself online was, after all, a way of communicating with an audience, and had the bonus of being a potential promotional shop window for your work once people were allowed back in venues again. Manchester Collective, REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: DONOVAN Early last month, Donovan issued his extraordinary new single “I am the Shaman”. Recorded at David Lynch’s Los Angeles studio, it was produced by the polymath director and fellow transcendental meditation devotee. The accompanying video was also directed by Lynch. The powerful “I am the Shaman” haunts. It also confirms that Donovan remains an active force. BLU-RAY: THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI It is an ironic fact that the most celebrated of auteurs to emerge during Hong Kong’s ‘Second Wave’ of directors in the 1980s, and indeed to emerge whatsoever from the administrative region, did not originate from within its bounds. Born in Shanghai, and the son of a sailor and a housewife, Wong Kar Wai’s parents took the bold decision to emigrate to British-ruled Hong Kong on the eve CLASSICAL CDS: THREE GREAT CONDUCTORS REMEMBERED, MAHLER Big box sets, a symphonic swansong in miniature and contemporary music for piano trio. Classical CDs reviews by Graham Rickson TIME, BBC ONE REVIEW 1 day ago · Jimmy McGovern’s new three-part drama about prison life is about as far as you could travel from Ronnie Barker’s Seventies sitcom Porridge, even if they are both on the same TV channel.Having said that, McGovern’s fictional HM Prison Craigmore doesn’t look as if it’s had a facelift in 50 years, and its cramped cells and brutishly ugly corridors are enough to trigger panicattacks in
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ALBUM: MEGHAN TRAINOR - TREAT MYSELF | REVIEWS, NEWS & INTERVIEWS ALBUM: MEGHAN TRAINOR - TREAT MYSELF ALBUM: MEGHAN TRAINOR - TREAT MYSELF THE EBULLIENT POP SENSATION MIXES HER BASS WITH HER TREBLE by Russ Coffey Friday, 31 January 2020Share
Facebook Twitter Email Trainor: ditching the candy cute schtick Here it is, at last: Meghan Trainor's long-anticipated third album , scheduled for last summer, but mysteriously delayed because Trainor wanted to "add more songs". Not everyone was convinced by that story – there were rumours she was really planning to quietly scrap the whole thing because of a disappointing response to the early singles. But she didn't give up, and the final product weighs in at a hefty 15 tracks. About half of them share the same R'n'B-lite flavour of the recent single, "Blink". And yet, you can't help thinking it was really the first offering, "No Excuses", that she should have been trying to follow. It was cheery and light , and a whole lot morefun.
And so it is with the whole album – the songs that stay with you the longest are the sassiest or most heartfelt. "Funk" has an old-school George Clinton feel, and "Nice to Meet You" (featuring Nicki Minaj) carries off some outrageous hip-hop beats through its sheer chutzpah. A few of the ballads aren't half bad either. "Wave", a love letter to husband Daryl Sabara, is suitably lush. "Working" is slower and huskier and digs deeper into Trainor's psyche. "Never liked compliments", she sings, "because it's always been so hard believin'them".
The singer's other reflections on relationships and self-worth don't all work so well. "Baby Girl (love yourself)" is a dreary electro-pop/ R'n'B monstrosity, and "Here to Stay" is just lacklustre and forgettable. The most frustrating track is "Another Opinion" which is basically a lovely, sunny tune spoilt by its electro-pop overtones. Trainor has been experimenting with such styles ever since her second album when she ditched her retro candy-cute schtick in order to sound more contemporary. Since then she's also tried out other personas like the romantic balladeer on "The Love Train" EP and, of course, her sideline as a judge on _The Voice_. But throughout, she's been at her finest when she's kept some of her cheeky, girl-next-door charm. For all its inconsistencies, the best of _Treat Myself_ does exactlythat. _
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