fri 20/06/2025

graham rickson

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

Articles By Graham Rickson

Blu-ray: The Party

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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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The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...

The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first repr...

Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of...

Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...

Aldeburgh Festival, Weekend 1 review - dance to the music of...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of despair “...

Bonnie Raitt, Brighton Dome review - a top night with a char...

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have the best night of...