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★★★★★ Forever young: zest, dash and fun in rejuvenated favourites Bach Brandenburg Concertos, OAE Southbank Centre Boyd Tonkin reviews theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

★★★★ La Serenissima Wigmore Hall - Tasty Baroque discoveries, tastefully delivered, in this Italian menu to savour - review Boyd Tonkin theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

'A London show shines light on a previously neglected influence on the most English of 19th-century designers' Maya Jaggi writes for the Financial Times about William Morris & Art from the Islamic World. See the exhibition Tues to Sun, 10am to 5pm. bit.ly/4eEVjVM

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by Carcanet Press.

Freedom to Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal!!! He should be released from Algerian detention. He is no criminal!

My The Guardian ‘Other Lives’ obituary of my mother, Lalit Jaggi, ex-head of English Brentford School. IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Rohit Jaggi Madhur Jaffrey Zia Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Francis Wilkinson Susheila Nasta hannahlowepoet Reeta Chakrabarti Jay Rayner William Dalrymple theguardian.com/education/2024… :

#Bach #Mendelssohn Festival, Part I, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Top-flight performers show how a musical legacy endured - Boyd Tonkin on a fully-fledged musical (and educational) experience, and the flame that never died theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

What a magical night. A well-deserved standing ovation for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who delivered The Orwell Lecture 2024: The Feeling of Freedom. It was a packed house at Southbank Centre 's Queen Elizabeth Hall and a profoundly moving experience. 📸Facundo Arrizabalaga

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‘Sung & played with such bracing lucidity and verve, it offered not overwhelming spectacle, or chamber intimacy, but a satisfying mid-point in between’ ★★★★★ #MESSIAH AAM Seasonal standby returns with heart, zest and grace, says Boyd Tonkin theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

‘Each flash of wonder, however, helps illuminate a dark hinterland of violence and injustice.’ Read Boyd Tonkin on the class politics that dominate One Hundred Years of Solitude: 👇 buff.ly/3ZTWdJR

★★★★ A Baroque banquet for Christmas: Charpentier's charm, as well as Bach's bounty, adorn the festive table finds Boyd Tonkin The English Concert, directed by Harry Bicket, Wigmore Hall theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

My The Guardian ‘Other Lives’ obituary of my mother Lalit Jaggi, ex-Head of English Brentford School, is in print today. And online here: theguardian.com/education/2024… IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Rohit Jaggi Madhur Jaffrey Zia Jaffrey Sakina Jaffrey Boyd Tonkin MeeraSyal💙 Salman Rushdie Hanif Kureishi

Was 1925 – with Mrs Dalloway, The Trial, The Great Gatsby and so much more published – the greatest year for 20th-century fiction? If not, which was? My piece FT Weekend

★★★★ #DylanPerez @NickytheSpence Miranda Richardson Wigmore Hall - A festive cabaret - and a tenor masterclass - in a #Shakespearean journey in song - review Boyd Tonkin theartsdesk.com/classical-musi…

Who has more to say to wavering and would-be churchgoers? The Anglican hierarchy? Or a “gay aesthete and naturalist born in dire poverty and sustained by a web of close friends”? Boyd Tonkin makes the case for Ronald Blythe: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69117/…

“In what his biographer justly calls ‘one of the most unlikely couplings in literature’, he also managed to have an affair with the equally non-heterosexual Patricia Highsmith.” Boyd Tonkin on the glorious contradictions of Ronald Blythe: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/69117/…

Why is political gossip so important? Because, writes Boyd Tonkin, it shows our leaders’ greatest vulnerabilities 👇 buff.ly/3CR4ju7

‘Gossip, in Suetonius’s hands, can turn a man into a monster.’ Read Boyd Tonkin on how the Roman biographer redefined rumour 👇 buff.ly/3CR4ju7

As art-world power shifts towards the #Gulf, I write for @ft on why SharjahArtFoundation is different, and listen in to a global conversation at #SharjahBiennial 16, in the emirate just east of #Dubai until June 15. #contemporaryart #arabart #Sharjah #UEA ft.com/content/3f2475…