http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/ Hereford Times /leisure/reviews/ en-gb Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:59:11 +0000 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:59:11 +0000 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.herefordtimes.com/resources/images/1000821/?type=rsslogo http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/ http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/5036484.Blood_Brothers_works_its_magic_again_in_Malvern/?ref=rss THE legendary Blood Brothers can be seen until Saturday, March 13 in Malvern, with Lyn Paul again in the lead role of Mrs Johnstone. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:08:22 +0000 5be4b9723b871230a5e430298c8c5cd7 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/5023480.Haunted_at_Malvern_Theatres/?ref=rss LIVING up to its title, Haunted, with its palpable sense of loss, regret and desire, lingers in the mind long after the final curtain call. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:49:41 +0000 aaf22335bbd99192d4806035b5916360 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/5010283.Forever_in_Your_Debt_at_The_Courtyard/?ref=rss WHEN there’s no way out and no way back, there’s always a trip to Long Tall Sally, a high rise office building on the edge of town, the last resort of the desperate who choose its roof as the launch pad for a journey into the debt-free, stress-free hereafter. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:21:42 +0000 94bb2cdaf24ac303c3beed86e1e02e18 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4999253.World_class_ice_dance_and_giant_skating_tulips___Holiday_on_Ice_is_back/?ref=rss DRAMA, spectacle, glamour and excitement - Holiday on Ice, produced by artistic director Robin Cousins MBE and choreographer Karen Kresge, has got the lot and then some. This year’s show, Spirit, has a title that allows the producers, choreographers and costume designers to take inspiration from a breathtakingly wide array of sources, including the four elements of fire, air, earth and water, to create a series of truly spectacular performances. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:50:20 +0000 32fb676b6b6d565e5afe8e8d5cb5445a http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4984683.Alfie_charms_his_Courtyard_audience/?ref=rss ALFIE is no saint, but he’s got charm and an easy way with words that lures women into his orbit and into his bed. But that’s as close as he’ll let them get. Talking’s not his thing - talking, he reckons ‘is more intimate than the other’, and love is certainly not in his vocabulary. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:32:24 +0000 fec55505a1fdb394befc7129d9eb690a http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4883718.Uplifiting_Christmas_Oratorio_at_Hereford_Cathedral/?ref=rss MUSIC lovers are spoilt in Hereford. There is no other cathedral choir in the country that does what ‘our’ cathedral choir does, namely sing Bach’s three great choral works regularly; the two Passions alternately each year just before Easter, and the Christmas Oratorio early in the New Year. Last Saturday evening – joined by four excellent soloists, accompanied by Marches Baroque, and directed by Geraint Bowen – a very large and appreciative audience heard a fine performance of the six cantatas that make up the Christmas Oratorio, and which Bach performed for the first time in Leipzig in 1734/5. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:28:45 +0000 3997e640cd7ccf0a922b0425e7ea4781 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4880681.A_display_of_sheer_brilliance/?ref=rss All music was once modern music. The best music of the high Baroque period was imaginative, cutting edge stuff, designed to entertain and inspire, to delight and enthral. One of the stars of the age was the flamboyant Venetian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi. An ordained priest, he devoted his life to music, achieving near rock-star celebrity throughout Europe, where he became known as “The Red Priest” because of his flame-red hair. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:43:08 +0000 21d5cc4f14c5a20648c0a55bd7830e8b http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4872507.Pride_and_Prejudice___more_com_than_rom/?ref=rss PARING down Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice for the stage presents a major challenge and the sacrifice of both text and subtlety of character. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:23:27 +0000 ec9df8c464d33009819dc21b0f049797 http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4787557.Five_star_panto_at_The_Courtyard/?ref=rss OF all the impressive things about this year’s Courtyard panto, perhaps the most impressive is how cleverly writer Lyndsay Maples has introduced a pantomime dame to a show that doesn’t usually include the broad humour associated with the role. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:13:22 +0000 5756fad5b323f4350c08e2697918cfdb http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/reviews/4785052.Art_concealing__He_art/?ref=rss Holy Trinity Church , Hereford was the scene for the most intensive schooling of every element of the compendious world of concert-pianism, where one of the world’s greatest artists, Martino Tirimo continues apace, his monumental traversal of the complete solo piano works of Chopin. This most recent odyssey opened up hitherto undreamed of depths of existential despair as a transcendental C minor Nocturne Opus 48 the like of which have never been dreamed of in anyone's philosophy (unequivocally the finest rendition this reviewer has ever heard), a series of the tortuously difficult Opus 10 Etudes worthy of Cortot or Plante, and a final Opus 53 A flat Polonaise which was redolent of the inimitable Artur Rubinstein striding out and giving his concert-tails-coat that typical ‘pre-performance-pull’. Among such an immense treasure-trove of every conceivable element of the million-and-one things that go into the making of an artist, it is impossible to overlook Tirimo’s clarifying the disparate polyphonic strands of the immensely difficult G major nocturne Opus 37 which the great Chopin exponent Vladimir de Pachmann said took him 50 years of practice, in Tirimo’s beautiful hands, looked like the merest child’s play. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:24:14 +0000 713ff437df27d8b811e1f0006f6bc6a0