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After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

After life /					 													 						My YouTube rabbit hole
13.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Damian Thompson

After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

After life /					 													 						My YouTube rabbit hole
13.01.2025 6

The Spectator

Damian Thompson

My YouTube rabbit hole

My YouTube rabbit hole
12.01.2025 6

The Spectator

Damian Thompson

After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

After life /					 													 						My YouTube rabbit hole
09.01.2025 20

The Spectator

Damian Thompson

Classical music / Why is Fauré not more celebrated?

It is 100 years since the death of Gabriel Fauré, a composer whose spellbinding romantic tunes emerge from harmonies and rhythms that nudge us...

21.11.2024 4

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Damian Thompson

Dazzling: Marc-André Hamelin’s Hammerklavier

Grade: A When Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata was published in 1818, pianists were confronted with a mixture of ‘demonic energy and a torrent...

21.11.2024 3

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Damian Thompson

Schoenberg owes his survival to crime drama

George Gershwin once made a home movie of Arnold Schoenberg grinning in a suit on his tennis court in Beverly Hills but, sadly, never filmed one of...

24.10.2024 7

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Damian Thompson

Manacorda’s thrills and spills at Prom 72

At a Hollywood party in the 1940s, the garrulous socialite Elsa Maxwell spotted Arnold Schoenberg, then teaching music at UCLA, looking miserable....

19.09.2024 1

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Damian Thompson

The Stockhausen work that is worth braving

Grade: A- One of the best one-liners attributed to Sir Thomas Beecham refers to the stridently avant-garde Karlheinz Stockhausen: ‘I’ve never...

29.08.2024 40

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Damian Thompson

The Listener / The most exhilarating ‘authentic’ Mozart I’ve ever heard

Grade: A Yet another double bill of Mozart’s Piano Concertos 20 and 23! There’s an online database of 185 recordings of the first of these,...

01.08.2024 2

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Damian Thompson

The plotting to find the next Pope

The Hollywood adaptation of Conclave, Robert Harris’s thriller about a conspiracy to rig a papal election, won’t be in cinemas until November....

25.07.2024 3

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Damian Thompson