graham rickson
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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.
Articles By Graham Rickson
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Theodora, Arcangelo, Cohen, Barbican review - gloriously dar...
Handel’s Theodora – voluptuously beautiful, warm-to-the-touch music, yoked to a libretto of chilly piety about Christian martyrdom in 4...
Riotsville USA review - a training scheme with a tragic lega...
Sierra Pettengill has made the politest angry film I have seen. It has an incendiary quality that comes precisely from its calm stance towards its...
Album: The Zombies - Different Game
There’s something charmingly unassuming and humble about The Zombies. Nowadays their 1968 second album Odyssey and Oracle regularly...
Tom Dale Company, The Place review - immersive and genre-bus...
With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...
Mansfield Park, RNCM, Manchester review - bringing out the b...
Mansfield Park was written to be a country house opera – that...
Album: A Certain Ratio - 1982
1982 is only A Certain Ratio’s third album this century but it’s one that’s brimming with funky vibes that are more than enough to get...
Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...
How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...
Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...
As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....
Seraphina Madsen: Aurora review - the tarot won’t save us
“There is another world… a way of perceiving that is chaotic and awesome and terrifying,” announces Seraphina Madsen’s cigarillo-smoking,...