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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Thomas Bartlett
Shelter
(Modern Recordings/BMG)
★★★★★
THE NOCTURNE was developed by Irish composer John Field c1814 and, by the 1850s, reached its culmination with Frederic Chopin’s masterful collection of 21.
It was Chopin’s romanticism that was a revelation to Thomas Bartlett when he was a child — music he understood with his heart, not his head. He’s now resurrected the idiom magnificently by modernising it with contemporary sensibilities, particularly jazz.
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