It would have been hard to pick up a copy of the album credited to and titled 1001 Est Crémazie in 1975. Just 500 copies were ...

When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a ...

There was a change of conductor from the one advertised for this BBC Philharmonic performance at the Bridgewater Hall – but ...

Never make your mind up too soon about any large-scale work by a genius. Back in 2010, I had my doubts about James MacMillan’s first Passion, hearing in the impact of Colin Davis’s Barbican ...

As well as generating a ceaseless stream of albums, whether live, studio or culled from his copious archives, Neil Young has ...

It’s all done with such faultless wit and secure technique it’s not surprising the classical world sat up and took notice, ...

Luster’s fifth track “Halo” has the lyric “mystical creatures… of Éirne,” referencing the Irish river and lough of the same ...

As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan ...

I was born with the ability and the demon to write. I have been punished for it constantly.”Written and directed by Sinéad ...

In this new album, three top-flight musicians based in Berlin, guitarist Ronny Graupe, Lucia Cadotsch (voice) and Kit Downes ...

Arthur Bliss always summoned up for me the image of a fuddy-duddy old buffer writing boring music. But as I’ve discovered his ...

Who goes to the theatre to feel sad? That is, knowing full well that they won’t be going home with a skip in their step. Many ...