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Yulianna Avdeeva (Pentatone) Vladimir Horowitz’s personal piano helps the Russian bring authority to this collection of Chopin’s late works Fourteen years ago Julianna Avdeeva became the first woman since Martha Argerich 45 years earlier to take first prize in the prestigious International Chopin Competition, which is held every five years in Warsaw....
Heath/Royal Academy of Music/Juilliard School Ensemble/Hannigan/ Corderoy (Linn) Students from the UK and the US, conducted by Barbara Hannigan, mix familiar Stravinsky works with the rarely heardThough some of the works are performed in later orchestrations, this selection of Stravinsky’s music for chamber forces spans more than 40 years, from the...
As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush – and reconciliation with Roger WatersThe Division Bell is my favourite Pink Floyd LP and the song High Hopes felt like a full stop for the band. At the time, was that ever a possibility, or did you think there was a future? bcdcdude ...
Dorfman theatre, London In Tanika Gupta’s play, Meera Syal is a steely south Asian matriarch whose Lear-like decline into dementia upends her familyThere are quibbles with Tanika Gupta’splay, which tracks its protagonist Queenie’s (Meera Syal) traumatic decline into the pits of Alzheimer’s disease. But, almost all of them seem trivial when hit with...
Paramount’s ‘hybrid’ spin on the animated cartoon is bound to be disturbingly freakish, as it mixes real actors with animated baby-blobsNot so long ago, the trailer for next year’s Minecraft movie seemed to go out of its way to become the single ugliest thing ever witnessed by humankind. Not only did it feature real life actors weaponising the worst...
Sadler’s Wells, London A triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite’s work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of Siphesihle NovemberIt was inevitable really, that the strongest piece of this triple bill from National Ballet of Canada would come from Crystal Pite. One of the world’s...
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