Author: Alfred Searls
Review: Shostakovich and the Triumph of Art, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Last week Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra added another illustrious chapter to their long and successful history of performing the works of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Review: La Viña, Deansgate, Manchester
Firstly, full disclosure. I’m not one of life’s natural tapas fans.
Book Review: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the fourth of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.
Review: Uncle Vanya, HOME, Manchester
You dream of this kind of night at the theatre, the kind of night where the magical formula of script, staging and performance puts you through the emotional mangle before imprinting itself forever upon your memory.
Music instead of muddle: The Hallé and Shostakovich Symphony No.4, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Somehow, the Hallé Orchestra’s Beyond the Score series slipped under my radar.
A change of season at the Hallé: Stravinsky’s Firebird at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Manchester in October and memories of summer are fading fast.
Book Review: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the third of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.
Book Review: The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the second of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.
Book review: Ascent by Jed Mercurio
Now and again you come across a novel so closely published to your own specifications that you strongly suspect the publishers have secretly focus-grouped you to within an inch of your life, and then wiped all memory of it from your mind.
Review: Red Star Over Russia by David King
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. In the first of a new series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.
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