Adam Sweeting
Bio
Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)
Articles By Adam Sweeting
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The Real Ones, Bush Theatre review - engrossing, enjoyable a...
Platonic love should be simple — basically you’re best mates. And without the complications of sex, what could go wrong? Waleed Akhtar, whose big...
Prom 71, Seong-Jin Cho review - refined Romantic journeys
Out of emergencies may come revelations. Sir András Schiff has broken his leg, and we wish him a super-speedy recovery. At the Proms, his promised...
Frang, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - a concerto performanc...
Hauntings, memories, echoes: Antonio Pappano has started his official tenure as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra by looking back...
The Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death r...
Based on the novel by Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect...
Lee review - shaky biopic of an iconic photographer
Anyone who has seen Lee Miller’s photographs – those taken of her in the 1920s when she was a dazzling American beauty, those she took as a...
Our Country's Good, Lyric Hammersmith review - lively b...
The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 award-winning play about a performance of Farquhar’s ...
Why Am I So Single?, Garrick Theatre review - superb songs i...
Going to the theatre can be a little like going to church. One communes on the individual level, one’s faith in the stories...
Reawakening review - a prodigal daughter returns, or does sh...
“I’d know her. Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. Would I know her? Would I?” John (a brilliant Jared Harris, who’s also an executive producer)...
Album: Floating Points - Cascade
I made a terrible mistake when I first got this LP: I played it on my laptop speakers. That’s not the straight up foolishness you might think,...
LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - singular adventures for a ne...
Somehow those of us required to translate the musical experience into words look for the moments which defeat us. One such was the extraordinary...