You could plan an entire concert season around the theme of “late style”, its paradoxes and variations. For this one-off, ...

Anja Bihlmaier returned to the BBC Philharmonic – for the first time in the Bridgewater Hall as principal guest conductor – ...

With his furious docu-essay I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck caused a stir in 2016. The film about African-American writer James Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement not only put the Haitian-born Peck ...

One of The Barnabáš Kos Case’s incidental pleasures lies in its relatively accurate depiction of orchestral life. Much of the action in Peter Solan’s 1964 Slovak black comedy (originally title: Prípad ...

One Boat, Jonathan Buckley’s 13th novel, captures a series of encounters at the water’s edge: characters converge like trailing filaments on the shoreline, lightly touching, their eventual separation ...

I come to this album from a week or so spent among the denizens of the New York and Boston folk revivals, including a key ...

“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

Let’s call it Jane Austen fit for the West End, but with opera singers. The fact that it also serves as a fun ensemble piece for students is also very much in favour of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park, ...

What happens after the spotlight is directed towards another target? In the case of Liverpool and the Merseybeat boom – which ...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the ...

Quartets Through a Time of Change: music by Ravel, Durey, Tailleferre and Milhaud Brother Tree Sound (First Hand Records) ...

The BBC’s latest “cool” Agatha Christie adaptation has many hallmarks of the decidedly dark ones that were considered ...