Joseph Phibbs
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Prom 40, Moore, RPO, Petrenko review - orchestral clarity, a...
It does need saying: the RPO may receive less frequent plaudits than some of their London peers, but this is a fine and wonderfully responsive...
Wonderville Magic and Cabaret - fast-paced show delivers the...
There’s nothing quite like magic, live, up close and personal. Sure there are the TV spectaculars, the casino resort mega-shows and...
Salome, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Gardner, Edinburgh In...
It is quite some years, if not decades, since the Edinburgh International Festival had any claim to be a festival of staged opera. This year we...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Hal Cruttenden / Zach Zucker...
Hal Cruttenden, Pleasance Courtyard ★...
Album: Hot Chip - Freakout/Release
You know those people who claim to literally only like the very first music a band does at the start of their career, then kind “Meh” decades-...
Prom 39, Hartwig, BBCSO, Oramo review - bright and breezy fo...
Two quirky concertos – one for orchestra, though it might also be called a sinfonietta – and a big symphony: best of British but, more important,...
Room, Edinburgh International Festival 2022 review - decaden...
"I feel I owe you an explanation." That much James Thierrée concedes partway through his sprawling, freewheeling, dream-like, hallucinatory ...
First Person: tenor Cyrille Dubois on recording all Fauré...
The year 2024 will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the phenomenal Gabriel Fauré. For Tristan Raës and me, who have been...
Edinburgh Fringe 2022 reviews: Randy Feltface / Sarah Keywor...
Randy Feltface, Assembly George Square ★★...
Blu-ray: The Saphead
Buster Keaton made his name in a series of two-reel shorts made from 1917 onwards; The Saphead, from 1920, was his first starring...