In a programme note for the St John Passion at the Barbican, the Academy of Ancient Music’s chief executive called their ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A single sofa is all we have on stage to attract our eye - the signifier of intimate family evenings, chummy breakfast TV and ...

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