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- Nicholas Routley
The whole work is a testament to Shostakovich’s constant battle with the thought police of the Soviet regime which dogged him throughout his life.
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- Nicholas Routley
We are given, not a survey of her life, but rather a glimpse into Baker’s psyche.
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- Nicholas Routley
There is no denying the dramatic force of these sonatas, and there is drama in spades in Mustonen’s renderings.
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- Nicholas Routley
A modern re-working of Chekhov’s play of the same name, perhaps comparable to Bernstein’s re-working of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story.
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- Nicholas Routley
The whole show was one in which technical wizardry was wholly at the service of delighting, provoking, or astonishing the audience.
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- Peter Bleby
A brilliant performance from start to finish.
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- Peter Bleby
Inventive yet familiar, complex yet approachable, uplifting yet unsentimental, and altogether peppered with charm, challenge, poignancy and plenty of unbridled humour
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- Peter Bleby
With humour, empathy and depth, this play presents issues of culture clash, racism and integration of differing cultures, values, and traditions, each with their own long-standing importance and relevance.
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