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Though set in a Czech village during the last months of World War 2, armed conflict is peripheral in Karel Kachyňa’s Long Live the Republic…
Books about The Beatles are apt to prompt questions on whether there is anything left to say about them. Depends who’s doing the saying. We…
Well beyond the muscle-flexing of the manosphere, there are men who wear their hearts on their sleeves, and show much deeper courage than…
Billie Eilish’s second concert film joins a newly lucrative genre, following Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’s $267 million box-office. Both…
Quicksilver Messenger Service were central to what emerged from San Francisco as 1966 unfolded – the psychedelic-dance-ballroom scene. They…
Carla Simón’s latest autofiction disinters the post-Franco plague of heroin and AIDS which killed her parents and that of Marina (Llúcia…
Concertos where the soloist is a member of the orchestra are something of a Scottish Chamber Orchestra speciality. They’re always among…
In the 1920s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was as famous as it gets really, author of the beloved Sherlock Holmes stories, a polymath and a rare…
Louis Couperin: The Complete Works Jean Rondeau (harpsichord, organ and artistic direction) (Erato)
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