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Simon Tait

Articles By Simon Tait

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Mr Scorsese, Apple TV review - perfectly pitched documentary...

This five-parter by Rebecca Miller is essential viewing for any...

theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera 2025 - two strong prod...

A drawback of choosing relatively or very obscure operas, as they've been mostly doing in Wexford Festival since 1951, is that the audiences...

Bach's B minor Mass, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, C...

The greatest procession of mass movements ever composed merits the best line-up of soloists, both vocal and instrumental, as well as the perfect...

Kaploukhii, Greenwich Chamber Orchestra, Cutts, St James...

To St James’s Piccadilly to hear the young pianist Misha Kaploukhii give an impressive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto,...

Music Reissues Weekly: Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill

Issued in September 1974, Hall of the Mountain Grill was Hawkwind’s fifth LP. The follow-up to 1973’s live double album...

The Line of Beauty, Almeida Theatre review - the 80s revisit...

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre premiere...

Down Cemetery Road, Apple TV review - wit, grit and a twisty...

Back in 2003, when Mick Herron was a humble sub-editor, his...

The Railway Children, Glyndebourne review - right train, wro...

If the distance from Festen to The Railway Children looks like a long stretch of track, remember that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s...

Robin Holloway: Music's Odyssey review - lessons in com...

Robin Holloway is a composer and, until his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British composers of the...