This is a very enjoyable documentary about how the cerebral British filmmaker John Boorman found himself directing one of the ...

Since first collaborating with violinist Jack Liebeck during lockdown, Voces8 have built up a sizeable repertoire for this ...

Brahms’s German Requiem – not a Requiem Mass at all – is a sequence of seven choral/orchestral movements, with baritone and ...

The "Walter Presents" strand has coughed up all sorts of potential replacements, while BBC Four continues to pan for gold on Saturday nights. There’s already been one Swedish drama premiering this ...

Elgar: Violin Concerto, Salut d’amour, Chanson de nuit, Sospiri etc Thomas Bowes (violin), Sinfonia Arcadiana/Nic Fallowfield ...

Running”, released in the autumn of 2024, is one of the most irresistible, over-the-top bangers of recent years. Its parent ...

Joe Hill's portrait of Harold Pinter: On its evidence, said Pinter, he should have opened for England Pinter started playing cricket for Gaieties CC in the mid-1960s. The club was the creation of ...

Oscar Wilde, who knew a thing or two about this stuff, wrote that “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, ...

Just over thirty years ago, amidst the height of grunge and a renewed rock era in popular music, a band rose up in defiance ...

With the passing of Dave Ball last autumn, one of the 1980s’ great synth-pop outfits came to an end. He and Soft Cell partner ...

A rain shower had us hurrying in to early 17th century, pink sandstone Dirleton Church (pictured below later; JC), just off the second of two very English-feeling village greens, for Schubert's ...