Mozart, made in Manchester”, the project to perform and record an edition of the piano concertos plus all the opera overtures ...

The clue is in the title – not Then in America or Over There in America or even a more apposite, if more misleading, Now in America, but an urgent, pin you to the wall and stick a finger in your face, ...

The delightful openers were a sequence of Scarlatti sonatas and a Bach partita, the afters a large portion of Brahms that, ...

It begins with a superb rendering of his 2018 song “Ain’t Gonna Moan No More”, on which Van is joined by the mellifluous voice of Kurt Elling, and which was recorded alongside the other duets on the ...

Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual ...

All five finalists in the Leeds International Piano Competition, at which Pavel Kolesnikov was one of the jurors, should have been given tickets, transport and accommodation to hear his Wigmore ...

Modernism is us. Today. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter — which once upon a time ...

Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (To Live) begins with an X-ray photo of the central character’s cancer-ridden stomach, a man described by the narrator (an uncredited Kurosawa) as someone “drifting through ...

It was striking because of its eloquent melody and evocation of child-like joy. Subsequent experience has confirmed the impression that she writes music that immediately communicates, that is often ...

How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, ...

You need to be fairly long in the tooth to feel nostalgia for the heyday of London City Ballet. The group was set up in 1978 ...