Hidden behind a brick wall and a steel door with a discreet intercom button down an alleyway in Venice, a wisteria-clad building is home to Palazzetto Bru Zane – a laboratory dedicated to unearthing lesser-known French Romantic music. But why in the heart in Venice?
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Palazzetto Bru-Zane: revealing the music hidden in a Venice casino
Palazzetto Bru-Zane: revealing the music hidden in a Venice casino
Hidden behind a brick wall and a steel door with a discreet intercom button down an alleyway in Venice, a…
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Review – Britten Weekend at Snape Maltings
Britten Weekend 2025 traced music refusal to be destroyed. What emerged wasn’t nostalgia or indulgence but a promise to remember….
Review – The Rolling Year – Hannah French
In a culture hooked on doom narratives about classical music’s decline, French reminds us that attention itself is the radical…
Review – Tim Horton plays Chopin at Wigmore Hall
Tim Horton at Wigmore Hall: precision, warmth and wit in a programme that moves from Bach’s architecture to Chopin’s abandon….
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Opinion – The Culture Secretary we never got (and the message that missed the mark)
Thangam Debbonaire — the former shadow culture secretary who missed out on her constituency and the chance to the UK…
Sir Keir Starmer on Radio 3’s Private Passions: heartfelt but a little hollow
Sir Keir Starmer’s Private Passions appearance is part love-letter to music, part soft-focus politics. He’s evidently warm in his advocacy…
Southbank Centre’s risky bid to sound unstuffy
Every bid for a new audience sends a message to the old one. The art is making sure it’s not…
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Notes on Listening
After a day immersed in figures and forecasts, stepping into Wigmore Hall feels like surfacing for air. Here, the discipline…
The Wrong Boat to Venice
A trip to Venice to review a festival. Yet, somewhere between the wrong boat, the gondoliers and a memory from…
1452. Gare du Nord, Paris.
From Eurostar carriage scenes to Parisine on the Metro, the trip sharpens listening long before the first chord sounds….
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Review – Series 3 – The Diplomat
A firm Thoroughly Good favourite. Definitely a three series box set to binge. Full of grand performances….
Review – Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
A stylish, pacey whodunnit from Anthony Horowitz. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue balances peril and polish with a touch…
Review – ‘Flesh’ – David Szalay
A fast, hard-hitting novel where emotion lands late and quietly, turning detachment into its own kind of intimacy….
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