GRAMOPHONE Review: Next To Normal – Original London Cast Recording
It took 15 years for Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical to make it to London’s West End from Broadway – a staggering statistic in itself though its topicality with regard to mental health…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Sibelius Symphony No.5 etc. – Christian Tetzlaff, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Collon
This is outstanding. The longest sunrise in music emerges through crisp clean air in Nicholas Collon’s wonderfully lucid account of the Fifth Symphony. Woodwinds are keenly profiled, rhythm and dynamics immediately a priority. Even in stasis there’s…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Mahler Symphony No.5 – Tonhaller-Orchester Zürich/Järvi
Should the opening trumpet solo be more ‘Last Post’ than ‘Reveille’? I am never entirely sure – it is decidedly low-key here. But what I am sure about is that the ensuing funeral march should feel more…
RICHARD RODGERS: SOMETHING WONDERFUL – Jewish Literary Foundation Book Week 2025
For our grand finale, join us for an enchanting celebration of Richard Rodgers, hailed as one of the greatest popular melodists of all time. Writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson teams up with Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny to explore Rodgers’ iconic collaborations…
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: SOME OTHER TIME – Jewish Literary Foundation Book Week 2024
Working with fellow theatrical legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green he created iconic shows, ballets and concert works, including West Side Story, Candide, Mass and Dybbuk, winning numerous Emmy, Grammy and…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Maybe Happy Ending – Original Broadway Cast
At a time when A.I. is all over the news and robotic ‘helpers’ are seen as both progressive and downright scary is it any wonder that Maybe Happy Ending – a super-smart new musical from Korean-American writers…
TALKING POINT: TY JEFFRIES aka Miss Hope Springs in conversation with Edward Seckerson
Saturday 8 November 2025 2.00pm at The Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel In collaboration with London’s most prestigious cabaret venue, writer and broadcaster EDWARD SECKERSON is delighted to continue his occasional strand of exclusive conversation events featuring some…
TALKING POINT: ANNA-JANE CASEY in conversation with Edward Seckerson
Saturday 11 October 2025 2.00pm at The Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel In collaboration with London’s most prestigious cabaret venue, writer and broadcaster EDWARD SECKERSON is delighted to continue his occasional strand of exclusive conversation events featuring some…
TALKING POINT: JANIE DEE in conversation with Edward Seckerson
Saturday 13 September 2025 2.00pm at The Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel In collaboration with London’s most prestigious cabaret venue, writer and broadcaster EDWARD SECKERSON is delighted to continue his occasional strand of exclusive conversation events featuring some of the…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Orff Carmina Burana – Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra & Choruses/Järvi
The stakes are always higher when a piece is as over-exposed, as much a part of popular culture, as this one. Carl Orff’s ribald romp has kept amateur (and professional) choral societies super-busy over many decades and…
