🔗 Gramophone - How we made England, my England: ‘They actually built a sort-of London for me to burn down. What heaven!'

Tony Palmer shares his journey and challenges in creating the film “The Mystery of Henry Purcell,” highlighting its themes and connections to contemporary society while reflecting on the creative process and collaboration with John Osborne.

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🔗 PLURIBUS: THE POWER OF DIVISION - by Slavoj Žižek

🔗 From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance

🔗 The never ending story

🔗 Barbican revamp to give ‘bewildering’ arts centre a new lease of life

🔗 ‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties

🔗 Cyrano de Bergerac review – Adrian Lester brings sublime soul to roistering romance

🔗 Book review: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman

🔗 ‘Our world is combustible’: Kathryn Bigelow on AI, Andy Warhol and nuclear Armageddon

🔗 Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

🔗 From high-octane action to arthouse intrigue … all Kathryn Bigelow’s films – ranked!

🔗 The Unthanks: Lines review – national treasures sing Emily Brontë and Maxine Peake

🔗 Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

🔗 Tosca review – Natalya Romaniw is riveting in WNO’s season-opener

🔗 The Strange World Of… Van Morrison

🔗 DELIUS Song of Summer: Ken Russell

🔗 ‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

🔗 Mark’s notes on Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

Mark Wigglesworth

Ultimately, the debate about whether Shostakovich is portraying the heroism of Russians in 1905 or Hungarians in 1956 is irrelevant. It does not matter whether he is attacking the violence of Cossack troops or the aggression of Red Army tanks. What is clear is his obvious empathy with all who try to rise up against tyranny and his passionate antipathy towards all who oppress them.

🔗 Top 10 English composers

The sound world of Delius is immediately recognisable – warm, luminous orchestral colours, hazy, impressionistic tone pictures tinged with a romantic glow. No one (unless you include popular music arrangers) followed in his footsteps. He belonged to no tradition; he led nowhere.

🔗 Frederick Delius – the cosmopolitan composer

🔗 BFI Screenonline: Ken Russell’s Composers

🔗 Ken Russell obituary

🔗 Mosaic Depicting Two Flip-Flop–Like Sandals Discovered at the Roman Villa del Casale in Sicily

> two sandals whose resemblance to modern flip-flops has surprised researchers

🔗 A Span of Autonomy

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