Midwinter Swimmers is the musical analogue of Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series of paintings, where the familiar is ...

From James I’s campaign to wipe out witchery to the feuding sister sorceresses of The Wizard of Oz and the new film musical ...

Jazz music crosses, mixes and unites generations, and the 10 concerts I’ve seen at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival (out ...

What’s to be said about an album that’s half well-executed body-moving, dancefloor pop and half sickly, slick schmaltz? It’s ...

Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Solo piano works Igor Levit (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker/Christian Thielemann (Sony) ...

There were points when this concert felt like the musical equivalent of watching the atom split – as well as notes there were ...

"All’s well that ends well’. Sounds like the kind of phrase a guilty parent says to a disappointed child after they’ve been ...

Cleveland is probably the American city most like the one in which I grew up. Early into the icy embrace of ...

Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially ...

Picture this: framing the stage are two pearlescent clouds which, throughout the performance, gently pulsate with flickering ...

When the Venezuelan Rafael Payare was appointed as conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) two years ago, ...

Jon Fosse talks a lot about thinking. He also thinks – hard – about talking. His prolific and award-winning career in poetry, ...