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graham rickson

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Graham, who writes on classical music, lives in Leeds.

Articles By Graham Rickson

Classical CDs Weekly: Adams, Beethoven, Berg, Debussy, Szymanowski

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Classical CDs Weekly: Bo Hansson, Mahler, Shostakovich

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Classical CDs Weekly: Dvořák, Ravel, Garth Knox

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Classical CDs Weekly: Falla, Rameau, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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Classical CDs Weekly: Alison Balsom, Renée Fleming, Håkan Hardenberger

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Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Britten, Mariusz Kwiecień

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Classical CDs Weekly: James MacMillan, American String Quartets and Music from the Machine Age

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Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Britten, Liszt, Vaughan Williams

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Classical CDs Weekly: Handel, Lutosławski, Shostakovich

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Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Berlioz, Michala Petri

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Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging, West Yorkshire Playhouse

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Classical CDs Weekly: Brian, Shostakovich, Sibelius

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DVD: Tyrannosaur

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Classical CDs Weekly: Andriessen, Korngold, Tchaikovsky, Joshua Bell

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Classical CDs Weekly: Handel, Rachmaninov, Andy Findon

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Big Society!, Leeds City Varieties

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Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

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Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

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Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...