Matthew Romain
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Brockes-Passion, AAM, Egarr, Barbican review - fleshly Hande...
Whips, scourges, sinews, blood and pus: where Bach’s two Passions...
CD: The Cranberries – In the End
In the End, the final album by Limerick band the Cranberries arrives three decades after they first formed and just over a year after...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Terry Allen
Torso Hell tells the story of an American soldier whose limbs were blown off in Vietnam. Amazingly, he and his buddies survived, and in...
SS Mendi: Dancing the Death Drill, Isango Ensemble, Linbury...
While Bach's and Handel's Passions have been driving thousands to contemplate suffering, mortality and grace, this elegy for black lives lost over...
St Matthew Passion, Ex Cathedra, Skidmore, Symphony Hall Bir...
For the final instalment of their three Matthew Passions this Holy Week, Ex Cathedra gave a large scale performance of Bach’s oratorio in their...
Red Joan review - Judi Dench can't lift lumbering espio...
The decades-long stage relationship between Judi Dench...
Take That, SSE Hydro, Glasgow review - capes and cameos in 3...
This year, says Gary Barlow, marks 30 years since five boys walked into a room in Manchester and auditioned for what...
Climate Change: The Facts, BBC One review - how much reality...
Peer down the glassy dark and you’ll see them. White bubbles trapped in the frozen lake which appear to be rising to the surface. Look through the...