The joy of CVC, when they catch fire, is the zing of gatecrashing a gang of cheeky, very individual personalities having ...

Poetry, biography, film, essay: each form ghosts the next in restless disarray. He has written, for instance, a grotesque ...

But this one was a bit special, because Wong had his first chance to conduct the Hallé Choir along with the orchestra. The centrepiece of the menu was Fauré’s Requiem, very much a standard work, but ...

This album has a lot to live up to. Its predecessor Future Nostalgia came along just as the Covid crisis was properly kicking ...

In her first solo album for eight years, the Australian singer-songwriter is explicitly telling us “this time I won’t run – I ...

On the morning of the press show of Laughing Boy, the BBC news website’s top story was about the abuse of children with ...

Should I stay or should I go: Nizar Alani and Hala Zein in Soudade Kaadan’s ‘Nezouh’ ...

While the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra were performing Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie – weirdly, despite its ...

It was her 2018 album Be the Cowboy which saw Mitski propelled to stardom status. Laurel Hell, which followed in 2022, saw ...

Towards the end of David Haig’s new adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1956 science fiction short story, someone asks if three ...

Richard Strauss: Piano Quartet and Metamorphosen (septet version) Trio Arnold, Manon Galy, Grégoire Vecchioni, Aurélien ...

Small scale shows, nurtured in offbeat places, are becoming all the rage in the West End. Red Pitch, Operation Mincemeat, For ...