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…
In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense of orchestral drama to hear and to project their startling innovation. This Rite is all about inner…
The character of this reading – and it does not, alas, confound expectations – is clearly established at the outset: cellos and basses incisive but hardly seismic, the rhythms crisp, even clipped, the emerging funeral processional more…
Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes as to the composer’s shifting state of mind between the war years and the death of his…
