David Benedict
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Elvis review - Austin Butler shines in patchy biopic
Strictly Ballroom aside, I’ve never been entirely persuaded by...
First person: Ukrainian violinist Valeriy Sokolov on perform...
A fortnight ago I performed Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Aurora Orchestra, joining them and their Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon in...
The Big Hit review - prisoners play 'Godot'
High culture...low life. Emmanuel Courcol’s film The Big Hit (Un Triomphe in France) is a 105-minute experiment in what...
Hughes, Manchester Collective, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester...
Manchester Collective were back on home ground last night in the tour of a programme featuring the first performances of a new song cycle by...
Album: Regina Spektor - Home, before and after
When did life become so theoretical? In the penultimate track of her new album, Home, before and after, Regina Spektor plays the role of...
Blk Jks, Moth Club review - Johannesburg’s art-rockers are m...
Figuratively, “Tselane” is Blk Jks’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Both songs begin quietly and move through passages of turbulence suggesting an...
A Doll's House, Part 2, Donmar Warehouse review - Noma...
Slamming the door on experience comes with repercussions in A Doll's House, Part 2, the thrilling...
Die tote Stadt, Longborough Festival review - Korngold on th...
Will Erich Korngold, the great cinema composer, ever be recognised as a great composer for the live theatre? Probably not, at least until the...