There were times when this event felt more like a devotional rite than a concert. Thirteen thousand of us had gathered at the ...

Vladimir Jurowski and Vilde Fring after the performance of the Schumann Violin Concerto, with LPO players including leader Peter Schoeman (left) and co-leader Alice Ivy-Pemberton behind him Having ...

The scenario Pickett has devised shouldn’t work; in fact, it raises one too many questions to be wholly successful, notably: who has been fighting this civil war? On one side is tattooed, bearded, ...

You can see why: the three semi-autobiographical novels – The Midnight Bell (1929), The Siege of Pleasure (1932) and The Plains of Cement (1934) – are a challenge to adapt. They have a panoramic ...

In those early years he put himself wholly in the service of new writing. His breakout hit was in Conor McPherson’s The Weir, which went through multiple casts in London and New York. The other ...

Pastor Manders (Oliver Alvin-Wilson), whom Helene loved and for whom she would have abandoned the respectability of marriage, is on hand to open the new home. During the course of a single day, these ...

How much further Ibragimova and a slightly different team - all women now - have taken that G minor Quartet than on their already superb BIS recording. Haydn wasn't exactly young when he made this ...

Music can be a life-healing catalyst, the untrammelled essence of heart and mind conveyed human and raw from the soul. There’s magic in that. Alternately, there’s singing, “Lost in the valley of the ...

A tray of water, a metallic plate piled with salt, a bubble-producing plastic stick. The kind of tat that looks so cheap you ...

Over the last 30 years or so, the Avalanches have proved themselves to be samplers supreme and masters of the cut-up, ...