graham rickson
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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.
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Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+ review - you read the book and...
Scott Turow published his cunningly-wrought legal thriller in 1987, and Alan J Pakula’s powerful movie version, starring Harrison Ford, appeared...
Arcadian review - Nic Cage underacts at the end of the world
Benjamin Brewer’s post-apocalyptic, Nic Cage-...
Ashton Celebrated, Royal Ballet review - peerless delights f...
Launching a four-year global project to proclaim the genius of...
Music Reissues Weekly: Margo Guryan - Words and Music
Late summer 1966. Jazz was Margo Guryan’s thing. She was not interested in pop music. This changed when she was played The Beach Boys’s “God Only...
Bach's Mass in B Minor, Collegium Vocale Gent, Herreweg...
There’s a masterful subtlety to Philippe Herreweghe’s interpretation of Bach’s last great choral work – it shuns blazing transcendence for a sense...
Sorcery review - a tale of shapeshifting revenge
Islands off the coast of southern Chile, to the Spanish and German settlers of the 19th century, represented the edge of the world. To the...
The Moor review - Yorkshire chiller is ambitious but muddled
A number of films in recent years have added a distinctly local flavour to the folk-horror genre. Mark Jenkin was inspired by...
Album: John Moreland - Visitor
The mournful, lonesome voice of John Moreland from Bixby, Oklahoma, will be known by a few, but not many, in this country. The 12 songs on his...
Smashing Pumpkins / Weezer, OVO Hydro, Glasgow review - doub...
The current trend for package tours with two headliners appears to be growing, and this jaunt presented somewhat unlikely bedfellows – the...
Àma Gloria review - small-scale triumph with a big emotional...
In Marie Amachoukeli’s Àma Gloria there’s a remarkable performance by a child actor, Louise...