I tell people this is my first and last big band album,” says Helen Sung about Oracles. The Houston-born pianist received a ...
So polished and passionate are the 11 world-class players of Ensemble 360, pioneering music in the round in Sheffield and ...
The band have always been doused in nostalgic Americana of various kinds, of course. When they broke out in the 00s it was everything from Captain Beefheart to Scott Walker, and from then until now ...
Rewind the clock back 10 years, and all seemed very promising for the upcoming rock group Marmozets. Cultivating an energetic ...
It’s safe to say Oscar Wilde enjoyed a good party, so it’s very likely he would give a big thumbs up to the Lyric’s An Ideal ...
Are Oscar Wilde's plays comedies of manners or just mannered comedies? Can they be kept afloat for today's audiences if they ...
The impact is heightened by a punchy, expletive-stacked translation from Anna Jordan that vividly demonstrates the corrosive impact of conflict on language. Eight years ago, her acclaimed play The ...
The Gabrieli Consort made a second Venetian Coronation album in 2012 and last night’s programme followed the repertoire of that more closely than the original version, with a focus on the music of ...
Art should reflect its times, but after a preview week dominated by the controversial participation of Russia and Israel, the ...
The Philharmonic’s chief conductor John Storgårds was enjoying the taste of his pure, northern native air in Saturday’s ...
Will viewers tire of Rivals before It runs out of Rutshire Chronicles to adapt? Not if these screen versions of Jilly ...
The last time I reviewed John Kearns, he mentioned being the father of a young child. Three years on, life has changed for ...