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

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, ...

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 ...

'I might be a bit late': no sleep for Joe Cole as Joe Roag One of the heroes of the show is Joe Roag (Joe Cole), a former Metropolitan Police cop who’s now wanted by Interpol for committing theft.

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

Somewhat amusingly, the sign outside Birmingham’s O2 Academy on Saturday stated that the evening’s entertainment was to be ...

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

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 ...