Emotional truth is elusive in Tchaikovsky’s “lyrical scenes” after Pushkin’s verse-novel. Overstress every feeling, as ...

The clue is in the title – not Then in America or Over There in America or even a more apposite, if more misleading, Now in America, but an urgent, pin you to the wall and stick a finger in your face, ...

The delightful openers were a sequence of Scarlatti sonatas and a Bach partita, the afters a large portion of Brahms that, ...

It begins with a superb rendering of his 2018 song “Ain’t Gonna Moan No More”, on which Van is joined by the mellifluous voice of Kurt Elling, and which was recorded alongside the other duets on the ...

Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual ...

Modernism is us. Today. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter – which once upon a time ...

Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (To Live) begins with an X-ray photo of the central character’s cancer-ridden stomach, a man described by the narrator (an uncredited Kurosawa) as someone “drifting through ...

Evangeline Mason I heard was six years ago, a simple song in a multi-composer “Manchester Peace Song Cycle” performed at the ...

How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, ...

British theatre has a proud heritage of science plays. From 1990s classics such as Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993) and Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) to more recent examples such as Lucy Kirkwood’s ...

Let the train take the strain”, as the old advertising slogan urged us. The train in this six-part drama has to soak up a ...

We were of course lucky to get this new WNO Rigoletto at all. If it weren’t for the fact that, in the end, the company’s wonderful chorus and orchestra couldn’t wait to get back to doing what they do ...