Edward Seckerson
Bio
Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.
Articles By Edward Seckerson
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The Beast review - bad cop blues
“They say we all have a beast locked up inside of us,” a character observes early in this...
Gators, Tramp Productions online review – the glittering dar...
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are way out of control. She knows that the natural...
ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas, Netflix review...
ZZ Top always seemed like a Texan version of Status Quo. It turns out, from watching this entertaining but hardly revelatory documentary, that...
Remembering John Prine, one of the great American singer-son...
John Prine, who has died at the age of 73 from a Covid 19-...
Wonderland, Hampstead Theatre online review - a major play a...
The talk is of an “economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof”: a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, this is one of the many eerily...
Joe Boyd's Recording Heaven
When it comes to making records, I love deadlines. Embarking on an open-ended project, particularly with the infinite number of overdubs made...
The Rake's Progress, Complicité online review - well-pr...
One way to look at Stravinsky's celebrated collaboration...
Mark Townsend: No Return review - a masterclass in journalis...
When Amer Deghayes departed for Syria in a truck leaving from Birmingham, a worker from a youth arts organisation in Brighton had been trying to...
Return to Belsen, ITV review - Jonathan Dimbleby retraces hi...
When the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany was liberated by the British 11th Armoured Division on 15 April...
The Iron Mask review - preposterous multi-national fantasy
Director Oleg Stepchenko’s follow-up to his 2014...