Classical Music Reviews, Film, DVD & BLU-RAY Reviews, Crime Fiction reviews – from Barry Forshaw (author of British Crime Film, Nordic Noir and a slew of other books), Jack of all Trades, Master of…?
New Classical CDs
Latest Classical CD Choice columns by the team with OUR coverage; plus FB & Twitter/X; Link and list of titles below.
RACHMANINOV: SYMPHONIC DANCES, PLETNEV: RACHMANIANA, International Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev/Warner Classics
DEBUSSY: PIANO DUETS VOL 2, Héléne Mercier, Louis Lortie/Chandos
RICHARD STRAUSS: INTERMEZZO, soloists, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles/Naxos
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 5, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles/Reference
NIELSEN: THE ULTIMATE SOLO PIANO COLLECTION, Rikke Sandberg/OUR Recordings
COPLAND: SYMPHONY NO. 3, WALKER: SINFONIA NO. 5/London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano/LSO Live
BARBER, VANESSA, soloists National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda/NSO
ODD SYMPATHIES, Mathhew Schellhorn piano/First Hand Records
New Crime Blu-Rays
STOLEN FACE Terence Fisher, director/Hammer Hammer Films Redux continues to make available in absolutely splendid packages some hard to see vintage outings by the company, and collectors are of course particularly keen on tracking down the earlier work of the...
The Bruegel Boy by Emma Darwin
Is being the bearer of a famous surname a blessing or a curse? The writer Charlotte Philby has done well by it, possibly because she has confronted the legacy of her famous relative head on. Emma Darwin’s is a different case, and she has already written two much...
In the FT: Meeting Miss Merkel
In today's FT: covering Angela Merkel's (fictional) new career as a sleuth: Miss Merkel... You will be familiar with Agatha Christie’s doughty Miss Marple, but what about another mature lady detective? Ex-German Chancellor? Once the most powerful woman in the world?...
Best of Summer Crime in the FT
My Best of Summer Crime in the FT: Southern Man/Greg Iles, Boys Who Hurt/Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, The Wrong Hands/Mark Billingham, This Is Why We Lied/Karin Slaughter, Between Two Worlds/Olivier Norek
Covering new in the FT
Covering in the FT: See link: https://crimetime.co.uk/genre-roundup-crime-in-the-financial-times/ Sharp Force/Patricia Cornwell, The Winter Job/Antti Tuomainen, The Widow/John Grisham, Blood Rival/Jake Arnott, The Cat/Georges Simenon, The Burning Grounds/Abir...
Latest FT Crime
In my latest FT roundup: Denise Mina, Liam McIlvanney, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Peter Swanson, Philip Gwynne Jones, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Arnaldur Indriđason
Meeting Highsmith
For Writing The Murder (edited by Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst) I joined some illustrious colleagues discussing the craft of crime fiction. I began by writing about my meeting with Patricia Highsmith… ‘My encounter with one of crime fiction’s truly legendary names,...
Derelict: Unmissable New Indie Crime Drama
Barry Forshaw writes: Derelict is a tense new independent crime drama directed by Jonathan Zaurin (based on events in his hometown in France) and co-wrtten by my colleague Kat Ellinger. Abigail is a socially isolated, angry young woman who is struggling to come to...