This is a very enjoyable documentary about how the cerebral British filmmaker John Boorman found himself directing one of the ...

Since first collaborating with violinist Jack Liebeck during lockdown, Voces8 have built up a sizeable repertoire for this ...

Brahms’s German Requiem – not a Requiem Mass at all – is a sequence of seven choral/orchestral movements, with baritone and ...

Elgar: Violin Concerto, Salut d’amour, Chanson de nuit, Sospiri etc Thomas Bowes (violin), Sinfonia Arcadiana/Nic Fallowfield ...

Running”, released in the autumn of 2024, is one of the most irresistible, over-the-top bangers of recent years. Its parent ...

Just over thirty years ago, amidst the height of grunge and a renewed rock era in popular music, a band rose up in defiance ...

This Hallé programme had two knights of the realm on its title page: Sir James MacMillan, composer, whose Symphony No. 6 was ...

Oscar Wilde, who knew a thing or two about this stuff, wrote that “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, ...

Tonight there’s almost a full moon, and the sky is clear so this waxing gibbous orb inevitably makes me think of space, the planets and the universe. Well, a bit anyway. So I should be responsive to ...

With the passing of Dave Ball last autumn, one of the 1980s’ great synth-pop outfits came to an end. He and Soft Cell partner ...

The pairing in this concert of Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6 and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, each throwing the other into relief, worked well. Both of these works, important outliers in the ...