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...
Read MoreThe Hallé began its new season in fine style with the kind of skilful and passionate performance that is the hallmark of this fine musical institution. In the Hallé’s hands, the audience was by turns waltzed...
Read MoreThe BBC Philharmonic knows what it’s doing. It got its new season off to a flying start with a thundering display of power, passion and precision. Beethoven was on the menu at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and...
Read MoreLast month as soft, warm, summer rain fell on a Saturday evening in Manchester, a packed Bridgewater Hall was able to transcend the meteorological treachery and escape into an English rural idyll. This harmonious miracle...
Read MoreThis is a story about art and how it was that two very different governments – the totalitarian Nazis and the liberal post war Dutch – came to imprison it, and for very different reasons. The story plays out over...
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