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graham rickson

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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.

Articles By Graham Rickson

Classical CDs Weekly: Guy Johnston, Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres, The Chanteuse

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Classical CDs Weekly: Sibelius, Vivaldi, Weill

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DVD/Blu-ray: Life Is Sweet

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Cavalleria Rusticana/Trial by Jury, Opera North review - sombre triumph and pale froth

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Classical CDs Weekly: Antheil, Barsanti, Handel, Laks

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Classical CDs Weekly: Cage, Mahler, Satie

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DVD/Blu-ray: My Life as a Courgette

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Classical CDs Weekly: Henze, Reicha, Shostakovich

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Imagine... Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella, BBC One review - beguiling profile of a musical prodigy

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Classical CDs Weekly: Mansurian, Ristori, Duo van Vliet

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Classical CDs Weekly: Dutilleux, Dvořák, Ravel, Tchaikovsky

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Classical CDs Weekly: Krenek, Belfiato Quintet, Bjarte Eike's Barokksolistene

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DVD/Blu-ray: The 5000 Fingers of Dr T

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Classical CDs Weekly: Sean Shibe, Morten Gunnar Larsen and Leonard Elschenbroich

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Classical CDs Weekly: Mompou, Schubert, Martinů, Shostakovich

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Classical CDs Weekly: Prokofiev, Skempton, Walton

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Jansen, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - profound and bracing...

Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra last seared us in Britten’s amazing Violin Concerto, with Vilde Frang as soloist, on the very...

Jakub Hrůša and Friends in Concert, Royal Opera review - fle...

Between bouts of that far from shabby, still shocking masterpiece Tosca, Royal Opera music director Jakub Hrůša ...

The Weir, Harold Pinter Theatre review - evasive fantasy, bl...

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Hadelich, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Man...

Concerts need to have themes, it seems, today, and the BBC Philharmonic’s publicity suggested two contrasting ideas for the opening of its 2025-26...

Album: Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu

The tour by the 81-year-old Mulatu Astatke which is currently under way and this album seem to be giving off different...

Music Reissues Weekly: Sly and the Family Stone - The First...

The remarkable The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 represents the first-ever release of a previously...

Monteverdi Choir, ORR, Heras-Casado, St Martin-in-the-Fields...

35 years ago, persona-now-non-grata John Eliot Gardiner revealed how performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito...