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A genuine starin the classical music world: Dmitri Hvorostovsky

ENC News 28 Nov 2017

The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has died aged 55. The news was announced on his Facebook page: “On behalf of the Hvorostovsky family, it is with heavy hearts that we...

Chekhov’s revolution: the Russian master still speaks to a world in flux

ENC News 20 Nov 2017

It’s over a decade since Katie Mitchell’s groundbreaking production of Martin Crimp’s version of The Seagull at the National Theatre. At the time, the production was vilified by some for...

Thrilling performance of ineffable Beethoven fugue.Emerson String Quartet.

ENC News 14 Nov 2017

“Incomprehensible” was one leading critic’s verdict when Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge was premiered in 1826. “This work will be contemporary for ever – I love it beyond everything,” declared Igor Stravinsky a century...

The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young review – what is it like to be a cow?

ENC News 31 Oct 2017

What is it like to be a cow? If Rosamond Young is to be believed, it’s pretty much like being human. Cows are “besotted” by and “dote on” their newborns,...

Novelist Amy TanRevisitsThe Roots Of Her Writing Career

ENC News 23 Oct 2017

Growing up as a first-generation Chinese-American in Northern California, novelist Amy Tan found herself pulled by two different notions of fate. Her mother was guided by beliefs in curses and...

Loving Vincent: How the world’s first fully-painted feature film took six years to make

ENC News 17 Oct 2017

If the word “unique” is overused, particularly when it comes to film journalism, it can genuinely be applied to Loving Vincent. But what makes Loving Vincent unique? Using 130 of Van Gogh’s paintings,...

The AI apocalypse

ENC News 26 Sep 2017

Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (review) Artificial intelligence will probably be the most important agent of change in the 21st century, think scientists. It may...

Edinburgh Festival. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, review

ENC News 04 Sep 2017

First established in its current form in 2004, the Edinburgh Art Festival carries on a grand old traditional of staging art at the Edinburgh Festival which stretches all the way...

Hannes Minnaar: Beethoven Piano Concertos CD review – buoyant, joyful and brimming with energy

ENC News 26 Aug 2017

“every single performance by this pianist is out of the top drawer” ” Gramophone, January 2014 Young Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar now has a complete set of Beethoven concerto discs to...

Wonderstruck’s Todd Haynes: I find movies rely upon dialogue too much and lose the visual language

ENC News 22 Aug 2017

The director of ‘Wonderstruck’ has just won the Pardo d’Onore Manor, an honour celebrating his lifetime of cinematic mastery at the Locarno Film Festival. Todd Haynes’s new film Wonderstruck starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams is an ode to...

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