David Benedict
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Album: Nao - And Then Life Was Beautiful
Neo Jessica Joshua, better known as Nao, has been consistently putting out good – often excellent – music...
Blithe Spirit, Harold Pinter Theatre review - an amusing, if...
We’re in an agreeable drawing room with an author, Charles Condomine, who is looking forward to having a bit of fun with a local...
Kanneh-Mason, Terfel, RPO, Philharmonia Chorus, Petrenko, RA...
75 years after Sir Thomas Beecham founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, it’s sobering to reflect that without this one person’s hubris and...
Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy, Sky Arts review –...
Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy lived a life of in-betweens. Modern yet traditional, the son of a builder who went on to become a famous...
Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery review - a glorious celebratio...
The 31 artists in Mixing it Up all live in this country, but a third of them were born elsewhere – in countries including Belgium, China...
Black British Musical Theatre 1900-1950, Wigmore Hall review...
The Wigmore Hall is a bastion of white musicians...
Album: Lindsey Buckingham - Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Buckingham was last in and first out of Fleetwood Mac’s...
Camp Siegfried, Old Vic review - the banality of evil, brill...
A stealthily powerful play gets the production of its dreams in Camp Siegfried, which marks a high-profile UK presence for the American...
Ben Howard, Royal Festival Hall review - authentic and reass...
Ben Howard is a man of very few words, unless of course, there’s a...
Esther Yoo, Yekwon Sunwoo, Wigmore Hall review - Korean duo...
The duo partnership between violinist Esther Yoo and...