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Joshua Bell, Nobel Prize Concert
In 2010 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, amid great furor from the Chinese. Although there is no prize ever awarded to musicians, the organizers of the annual concert do not want to forget what…
Rossini: Barber of Seville
Oh Rossini, you’ve given barber’s a bad name! Our cheeky Figaro comes centre stage again to delight us from the Opera national de Paris. Although this particular production was recorded in 2002, it’s so much fun, although slightly odd at…
Lully: Atys
My first thought when looking at this production of Lully’s Atys, was, ‘Ooo! Pretty!’ I know it is terrible to base things on face value, but this first impression was not wrong! There is a heartfelt love in this production…
Honegger: Pastoral d'ete, Symphony No. 4
The London Philharmonic’s newest release under conductor Vladimir Juroswki is a series of live recordings of works by Arthur Honegger. In the liner notes we are admonished against thinking of Honegger primarily as a member of Les Six. After enjoying…
Brahms: A German Requiem, Tahu Rhodes
Brahm’s German Requiem is one of the great works in the field of classical choral music. Over the years there have been many great recordings and this new recording from ABC Classics will definitely will not suffer in comparison to…
Los Parajos Perdidos, Pluhar
This new recording from Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, is a stunning recording of Spanish and Latin American music from the 17th century to the present day. Using an array of exotic stringed instruments such as the arpa llanera (a harp)…
Dead, Actually by Kaz Delaney
Seventeen-year-old Willow Cartwright lives in a world surrounded by A-listers, mansions and designer handbags, yet she couldn’t feel more out of place as the D-lister she chooses to be. When JoJo, the Queen Bee of Ruth Throsby High is found…
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
Nick doesn’t know why everyone at school is acting strangely, but he’s not used to being left out and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it. When he notices his best friend isn’t returning his calls and is…
What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
On my very first visit to New York in 1999, I decided to go to a book launch one hot summer evening in a little store in Greenwich village, just to compare it to our own author events here at…
In Search of the Blue Tiger by Robert Power
Oscar Flowers is a boy, the same as any other. He has the Mother, the Father and the Great Aunt and lives in a house, a House of the Doomed and Damned. He dreams like any other boy, dreams of…
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