Katharina Kastening
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A Chorus Line, Sadler's Wells review - high-kicking fun...
A Chorus Line reigned supreme on Broadway from 1975 to 1990, a bold, bare-bones piece that for once put...
theartsdesk at the Haapsalu Early Music Festival 2024 - othe...
The buildings, 13th-16th century, are earlier than the music (mostly Baroque). And what buildings. Non-Estonians like myself had heard...
Prom 21, Osborne, Sinfonia of London, Wilson review - a spec...
Does John Wilson ever stumble?
The Sinfonia of London, the Gateshead-born conductor’s ad hoc all-star super-band, rode into a full-to-...
La Pasión según San Marcos / Carmen, Opéra Comique, Edinbu...
Trouble. Overly honest. Too opinionated. Ultimately get killed for refusing to let go of their principles and kowtowing to the...
Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, Sky Documentaries review - the N...
The music scene on the New Jersey shore in the late Sixties and early Seventies must have been a thing of wonder, a kind of Merseymania-on-Sea....
Frankie Goes To Bollywood, Southbank Centre review - lots of...
In the 1960s, Cilla Black was rescued from hat check duties at The Cavern and made a star. In the 1980s, Rick Astley was whisked...
Album: Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim with Moskus -...
Barefoot in Bryophyte is a collaboration between musicians embedded in Norway’s jazz and experimental music scenes. Some of it, though,...
Prom 19, Rummukainen, Dandy, BBCSO, Oramo review - inward re...
How do you get five thousand plus people into the Albert Hall to hear two Sanskrit-based rarities by British-born composers? Simple: place the...
Music Reissues Weekly: Sex Pistols - Looking For a Kiss in K...
After Sex Pistols have played “New York,” the fourth song in their set, someone from the audience shouts “Anarchy in the U.K.” "We've already...