sun 02/04/2023

Sebastian Scotney

Sebastian Scotney's picture

Articles By Sebastian Scotney

theartsdesk at the Montreal International Jazz Festival - fabulous at 40

Read more...

Milton Nascimento, Barbican review – besotted audience hails frail legend

Read more...

Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, Ronnie Scott's review - Cuban wizards of piano and percussion

Read more...

The Bartered Bride, Garsington Opera review – musical glories, dramatic questions

Read more...

Michael Bublé, O2 Review – an entertainer second to none

Read more...

Mélanie De Biasio, QEH review – six years after 'No Deal'

Read more...

Mariah Carey, Royal Albert Hall review – fervent worshippers in Mariah-heaven

Read more...

Clara Mouriz, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton, Wigmore Hall review - the song recital as mixtape

Read more...

John Mayall, Ronnie Scott's review – the legend on his own terms

Read more...

Bebel Gilberto, Union Chapel review - less effort, more transcendence, please

Read more...

Love Supreme, Roundhouse review - Laura Mvula's defiant confidence tops the bill

Read more...

Janine Jansen, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Wigmore Hall review - a totally convincing recital

Read more...

Joshua Redman Still Dreaming, Barbican review - world-class quartet

Read more...

Sarah Chang, Ashley Wass, Cadogan Hall review – a virtuoso's disturbing 'inner game'

Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: concert pianist Lucy Parham

Read more...

Merry Christmas Baby - Gregory Porter & Friends, BBC Two review - mellow becomes slo-mo

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Music Reissues Weekly: McNeal and Niles - Thrust, Wilbur Nil...

An original pressing of 1979’s Thrust fetches at least £1000. Its 1980 follow-up Thrust Too can be a relative bargain at around...

In the Middle review - the true grit of grassroots referees

In the Middle profiles10 football officials who referee and run the line of lower-league games in south-west London and north-east Surrey...

Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy, Sky Documen...

Netflix’s hit show Drive to Survive has proved that F1 can grab ratings, but Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy (Sky...

Cinderella, Royal Ballet review - the first British ballet l...

The urge to redesign a heritage ballet is a curious one, given not just the expense but the fact that the main draw of an old ballet is the steps...

Colin Herd and Maria Sledmere: Cocoa and Nothing review - ar...

In his mock-poetic manual Peri-Bathos (1728), Alexander Pope opens by describing the afflictions which beset inhabitants of the lower...

Williams, Dunedin Consort, Truscott, Wigmore Hall review - s...

When your special guest is a young soprano with all the world before her, the total artist already, your programme might seem to run itself. Yet...

Law of Tehran review - visceral Iranian police thriller

Here in Europe we mainly see subtle, lyrical Iranian films, targeted at international festivals or art house audiences, so it’s great to get the...

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Complicité, Barb...

Complicité, the adventurous theatre company led today by Simon McBurney, one of its founders, is now 40. Over the last four decades, McBurney and...

Berlusconi, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - curious ne...

One wonders if Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan pondered long over their debut musical’s title. Silvio might...