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.
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Hadestown, National Theatre review - new folk musical is hot...
The road to full musical theatre production has been a long...
The Ballads of Child Migration, St James's Church, Cler...
What adjectives best describe a performance of The Ballads of Child Migration? None of those you’d normally expect to see applied to an...
CD: Mumford & Sons - Delta
Wow, can it really be 10 years since Mumford & Sons blazed their trail across the musical world with Sigh No More? The release of...
Pinters Three and Four, Harold Pinter Theatre review - doubl...
The West End is specialising in two-parters of late. To...
Thibaudet/Batiashvili/Capuçon Trio, Barbican review – a supe...
Even in a large hall, very good things can come in small packages. In advance, partisans of the Wigmore Hall or some other dedicated chamber space...
War Horse, National Theatre review - still touching after al...
War Horse at the National Theatre...
The Simon & Garfunkel Story, Vaudeville Theatre review -...
What to make of The Simon & Garfunkel Story, which began a week-long residency at London’s...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 44: Thom Yorke, Primal Scream, Elvis, N...
Enough hyping! This month, without further ado, let’s head straight to the reviews…
VINYL OF THE MONTH
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CD: Imogen Heap - The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed C...
London’s Palace Theatre this week celebrated the thousandth...
They Shall Not Grow Old, BBC Two review - Peter Jackson...
Peter Jackson has form when it comes to re-examining cinema history. In 1995 he made Forgotten Silver, a...