Category: Review
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Album Review – Muse: Impressionist French and Spanish music / Jack Hancher
Rich restorative music-making off the beaten track from guitarist Jack Hancher.
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News – Britten Sinfonia secures grant to continue Surround Sound concerts in 2025 and 2026
Good news for Britten Sinfonia whose community-infused playlist concerts get a financial boost for a run in late 2026.
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Review – BBC Proms 2026: Last Night of the Proms
Nicky Spence shone, Dolly Parton got a tribute at ‘world’s greatest classical music festival’, and the BBC turned in a polished Last Night as to the BBC continues to search for £500m of savings.
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Review – Donizetti’s Elixir of Love from Charles Court Opera & Waterperry Opera
Well worth the ten minute walk from Shadwell Overground to Wilton’s Music Hall. Committed vocals with a zingy stage design.
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Review – Playing With Fire: Virtual Reality at the Southbank Centre
The Southbank Centre’s new immersive Yuja Wang experience is this weekend’s big draw. It also makes an unintentional case for live music.
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Review – Wild Arts: Marriage of Figaro at Theatre Royal Norwich
Late in an 18-date tour, Wild Arts’ Figaro still has its comic instincts intact — but a design built for open air struggles behind a proscenium arch.
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Thoroughly Good’s September Concert Edit
Twenty-two classical and operatic events from across the UK worth clearing your diary for in September 2026.
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At the Sibelius Festival, Don’t Think of Finland
Inside Sibelius Hall, where the silences are as unforgiving as the fortissimos, but the infrastructure is a prize for whoever gets the next Chief Conductor role of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
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Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Five Images (That Won’t Leave Me)
True connection requires the one thing modern culture avoids: the willingness to surrender our attention to long-form live experience.
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Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Thetford, Grimes and Reconciliation
In a week of unrest in a Norfolk town, a fiftieth-anniversary memory, and the difference between reaching for reconciliation and being ready for it. ASYLUM SEEKERS have been removed by police from their homes in Thetford for their own safety in light of protest, unrest, and threatening behaviour this past week. That the unrest in…