★★★★★ #MichaelKiwanuka definitely doesn't FUDGE his first self-produced album, and with retro signifiers reduced the richness of the singer-songwriter's style is revealed - this is 'Kiwanuka’s writing voice, clearer than ever before', says @joemuggs.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/new-music/mi...

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SOME WOMAN @nationaltheatre.org.uk - Strong social issues, but a bit too didactic: #HelenEdmundson’s new play about the stresses of life for older women is a thriller starring #AnneMarieDuff in an excellent, highly emotional performance - review @sierz.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/some...

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★★★★★ #ChiaroscuroQuartet @wigmore-hall.org.uk - Period-instrument guttiness allied to supreme musicianship in revelatory, modern-sounding #Haydn, #Beethoven stranger than ever - review @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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★★★★ A dive into the MUD with #RemiWolf @remiwolf.music-social.com proves rewarding, with self-examination and catharsis on the iconoclastic Californian's third album - review by Erin Lewis www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/di...

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★★★★ EUGENE ONEGIN @operanorth.co.uk - Great musically, never mind the concept - there's energy, passion, intensity and tenderness in #GarryWalker’s conducting, says @robertbealemcr.bsky.social, though production moving story to late 20C Russia fails to convince www.theartsdesk.com/opera/eugene...

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