Tag: Christmas

• Cilia Petridou: The Mystery of Christmas Greek Kalanda (carols)

  This is a collection of songs for the festive season although, as it doesn’t sound “festive”, you get year-round value. The lyrics are Christmas-related but sung in Greek (translations provided). The sleeve/Press notes say that there is a tradition among the Greek people of the singing of carols (kalanda) on Christmas Eve. The notes reference […]

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  November 16, 2018

  Christmas, Classical

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• Treasure Island at the New Vic Theatre

  The New Vic Theatre’s Christmas production (it’s not a panto) (oh no it’s not) is a new adaptation of the famous RL Stevenson book Treasure Island. The book created much of the modern mythology of pirates (maps, Xs marking spots, pieces of eight and wooden legs) and all the trademark piratical images are seen on […]

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  December 7, 2017

  Christmas, Live

  Admiral Benbow Inn, Andy Burse, Ben Gunn, Christmas, Darby Mcgraw, Ellen Chivers, Gem, Hawkins, Hispaniola, Israel Hands, Lauryn Redding, Leon Scott, New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme, Nisa Cole, panto, Richard Costello, RL Stevenson, Staffordshire, Stoke, Tom Peters, Treasure Island, Trelawny, William Pennington

• O’Hooley and Tidow: WinterFolk

  In our minds, O’Hooley and Tidow are linked with Kate Rusby: we really admire what Rusby does, but her music is too glum for us to ever listen to. We saw her live once and she joked about her glumness in the run-up to announcing her next song, I Am Sad. Ho ho. Belinda O’Hooley […]

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  December 6, 2017

  Christmas, Folk

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• Stimmwerck: Flos Virginum, Motets Of The 15th Century

  As far as we’re concerned you can’t go wrong with heavenly voices from the 15th century (at least, modern musicians singing heavenly music from the C15th), and this is about as good as it gets. Admittedly there’s not a lot of variation but Stimmwerck, a German vocal quartet, prove that the human voice is the […]

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  October 11, 2015

  Classical, Uncategorized

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