Opera North have recently pioneered a way of presenting some big works which they call “dramatic concert stagings”, ...

Mason’s Wigmore Hall recital on Saturday armed with a certain degree of scepticism. Not about the siblings’ stupendous talent ...

Following a tradition that reaches back to the The Who’s Tommy, bands and musicians with serious artistic ambition have ...

Transcendence is everywhere in Mahler’s most ambitious symphony, from the flaming opening hymn to the upper reaches in the ...

CD set The Hamburg Repertoire says it collects “The original recordings of songs performed by The Beatles on stage in Hamburg ...

Last year came Ben and Master David Hemmings (Kevin Kelly's Turning the Screw), followed by Ben and Imogen Holst according to ...

The English title of a new film about the legendary singer-guitarist Stelios Kazantzidis, who popularised rebetiko, which is ...

In 2012, an eight-hour long version of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby arrived in London at the Noel Coward Theatre.

They fuck you up your Mum and Dad; they may not mean to, but they do.” These lines from Philip Larkin’s 1975 poem, “This Be ...

Greg Davies doesn’t spare himself in his new show, Full Fat Legend, his first tour in seven years after having been busy ...

Had I read the contextual blurb about Jenny Hval's latest album first, I might have assumed it was a perfume company ...

There’s this mod milieu, harking back to the Eighties. Weller at the forefront; Dr Robert and his Blow Monkeys; all righteously hate Thatcher; then the electronically groovy 1990s arrive; Acid Jazz ...