When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a ...

Never make your mind up too soon about any large-scale work by a genius. Back in 2010, I had my doubts about James MacMillan’s first Passion, hearing in the impact of Colin Davis’s Barbican ...

It’s all done with such faultless wit and secure technique it’s not surprising the classical world sat up and took notice, ...

As well as generating a ceaseless stream of albums, whether live, studio or culled from his copious archives, Neil Young has ...

Luster’s fifth track “Halo” has the lyric “mystical creatures… of Éirne,” referencing the Irish river and lough of the same ...

As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan ...

I was born with the ability and the demon to write. I have been punished for it constantly.”Written and directed by Sinéad ...

In this new album, three top-flight musicians based in Berlin, guitarist Ronny Graupe, Lucia Cadotsch (voice) and Kit Downes ...

Arthur Bliss always summoned up for me the image of a fuddy-duddy old buffer writing boring music. But as I’ve discovered his ...

It had begun to seem that Jon Hamm, whatever other roles he might appear in, was destined to be forever remembered ...

The London Choral Sinfonia are a very impressive group, a professional choir who are churning out terrific recordings at a ...

At a time when the powers that sadly be in America are trying their damnedest to erase and rewrite history, the latest ...