For as long as I can remember – back when I was not yet a teenager, listening to Joan Baez first as a way to learn guitar – voices and lyrics have been the elements that have drawn me in. It’s the ...

The first time you see Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value you want to catch her, hug her, slap her (as her character ...

If this time of year should prompt everyone to count their blessings, then one precious musical gift shines brightly over ...

As a boy growing up in the 1970s, I loved lazy afternoons spent on the red shag carpet of my family’s living room while listening to my parents’ collection of LPs.

Peace and Goodwill to All Men outside. Inside, on stage at least, there’s not much peace nor goodwill to be had on the horror-filled Saturday afternoon before Christmas. A high-spirited full house is ...

Vox Luminis, the vocal and instrumental group based in Namur and led by Lionel Meunier, continued their residency at the Wigmore Hall, hot on the heels of a memorable rendition of Bach’s B Mass at the ...

Vox Luminis, the vocal and instrumental group based in Namur and led by Lionel Meunier, continued their residency at the ...

UK prog-rockers Gracious! acquired their exclamation mark when their first album was released in July 1970. Up to this point, they were Gracious. Barney Bubbles, who designed their LP’s sleeve, added ...

When, in late 2021, I heard the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio, it truly felt like a heaven-sent gift of musical and vocal splendour after the long famine of our lockdown ...

Sky Atlantic’s adaptation, written by Joe Barton, adheres fairly closely to its source material, but inserts the additional characters of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and the author Alexander Pushkin, ...

Of the rest, it’s all premiere recordings, with only Sussex Landscape previously recorded. This is a dark and bleak wartime ...