graham rickson
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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.
Articles By Graham Rickson
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LPO, Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall review - ecstatic sonor...
This remarkable evening should really have been more remarkable still. The unfortunate pianist Cédric Tiberghien took an official pre-travel Covid...
Album: Fiona Monbet – Maelström
Fiona Monbet is a phenomenal violinist with a huge expressive range. Her credentials, above all in...
Music Reissues Weekly: Stan Tracey Trio - The 1959 Sessions
What’s now been titled The 1959 Sessions represents an unreleased studio album completed by the Stan Tracey Trio on 5...
Blu-ray: Champion
Champion (1949), one of many boxing films of the 1930s and 1940s, made a sculpture – and a star – of Kirk Douglas. In one of the few non-...
Long Promised Road review - another attempt to probe the fra...
There has been no shortage of documentaries about king...
Album: Eels - Extreme Witchcraft
Mr. E’s music examines hellish depths, but always climbs back towards the light....
Raymonda, English National Ballet, Coliseum review - a creak...
Neglected classics, whether books, plays or ballets, are usually neglected for a reason, and so it is with the three-act ballet Raymonda...
Nightmare Alley review - a dazzling trip through a heart of...
Director Guillermo del Toro has described Nightmare Alley as “a straight, really dark story”, lacking the supernatural elements in his...
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Piccadilly Theatre review - spect...
One of the many theatrical casualties of Omicron in December was the...
Memory Box review - exquisitely made drama set in Lebanon
Memory Box is that rare thing, a glimpse into a lost world from its traumatised inhabitants. Made by the...