Stuart Houghton
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Candide, LSO, Alsop, Barbican review - nearly the best of al...
When the biggest laugh in Bernstein’s Candide goes to a narrator’s mention of how nationalism was sweeping through Europe, you may have a...
Care, BBC One review - a blunt but powerful polemic
You wouldn’t turn to Jimmy McGovern for a drawing-room comedy, but there’s no doubting his gift for seizing big issues and turning into them raw,...
Katie Melua and Gori Women's Choir, Central Hall Westmi...
Amid the cacophony and incivility that characterises so much of our lives today, an evening of calm and beauty with Katie Melua and the Gori Women...
The Swingles, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review – austere Stravinsky...
The London Philharmonic’s year-long Stravinsky festival, Changing Faces, concluded here in...
Aladdin, Hackney Empire review - Clive Rowe returns as the D...
Susie McKenna and Steven Edis have been creating pantos...
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942-1984, BBC Four revie...
Perhaps belatedly prompted by the release of Barbra Streisand’s new album Walls, the worst-selling disc in her 55 years with Columbia...
Global fiction: the pick of 2018
If you believe the bulk of the “books of the year” features that drift like stray tinsel across the media at this time of year, Britain’s literary...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Unusual Sounds
The double album The Sound Gallery was issued in 1995. It collected British easy listening and library music tracks which had been mostly...
theartsdesk in Brno: Czech 100th feted through Janáček and S...
Five of Leoš Janáček's 10 operas are staples...