There must have been something in the ether. Only last month, not knowing that they had a surprise album about to drop, I ...
I tell people this is my first and last big band album,” says Helen Sung about Oracles. The Houston-born pianist received a ...
So polished and passionate are the 11 world-class players of Ensemble 360, pioneering music in the round in Sheffield and ...
Epstein’s story is well known. It goes from his Liverpudlian beginnings as quite an uncool, but keen, music salesman, in his father’s furniture store, to discovering the Beatles at a lunchtime gig at ...
It’s safe to say Oscar Wilde enjoyed a good party, so it’s very likely he would give a big thumbs up to the Lyric’s An Ideal ...
Are Oscar Wilde's plays comedies of manners or just mannered comedies? Can they be kept afloat for today's audiences if they ...
Rewind the clock back 10 years, and all seemed very promising for the upcoming rock group Marmozets. Cultivating an energetic ...
The Philharmonic’s chief conductor John Storgårds was enjoying the taste of his pure, northern native air in Saturday’s ...
Maisie Peters is a singer-songwriter from Sussex who’s 26, next week, and is a protégé of Ed Sheeran (she’s on his Gingerbread Man label). If you’re younger than her, you’ve likely never heard of her, ...
The impact is heightened by a punchy, expletive-stacked translation from Anna Jordan that vividly demonstrates the corrosive impact of conflict on language. Eight years ago, her acclaimed play The ...
Art should reflect its times, but after a preview week dominated by the controversial participation of Russia and Israel, the ...
The Gabrieli Consort made a second Venetian Coronation album in 2012 and last night’s programme followed the repertoire of that more closely than the original version, with a focus on the music of ...