As with the first instalment of Nézet-Séguin’s symphonic Rachmaninov there’s a very real sense here of this music coming home, of a sound, a style, an ethos, in playing it that somehow – subliminally – gets passed…
Edward Seckerson drops in on Jenna Russell during the run of Richard Taylor/Rachel Wagstaff’s Flowers for Mrs Harris at London’s Riverside Studios. They compare notes on the show and on other movers and shakers who’ve been instrumental in pushing…
Kerson Leong’s splendid account of the Bruch comes hot on the heals of Ryan Goosby’s no less committed reading with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra. But there are notable differences in tone which might loosely be…
In collaboration with Crazy Coqs, London’s most prestigious cabaret venue, writer and broadcaster EDWARD SECKERSON is delighted to announce a brand new strand of exclusive conversation events featuring some of the biggest names from the world of music…
Jamie Muscato – the original Jason “J.D.” Dean in the now cult hit Heathers and currently the lovelorn Christian in Moulin Rouge – sits down with Edward Seckerson to talk Once, Bend It Like Beckham, and being Kelsey Grammer’s younger self in Big…
The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartok’s Four Orchestral Pieces I cannot imagine – their relative compactness belies a breadth and depth and drama that calls to…
You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted and generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s an honesty – and modesty – about his playing that stands him apart. It’s so refreshing…
The liner notes remind us that this was the exact pairing of works that Carl Nielsen chose for his one and only London concert appearance. The critic of the day was not impressed with the Violin Concerto…
Sunday 17 September 2023, 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward…
In this episode of the Musicals Podcast Edward Seckerson drops in on the two leading ladies of the current revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love – Laura Pitt-Pulford and Danielle de Niese – to compare notes on two fascinating…
