To watch Mahan Esfahani play the harpsichord is to watch a philosopher at work. While there’s often playfulness and ...

Plays about the Windrush Generation are no longer a rarity, but it’s still unusual for revivals of black British classics to ...

The score is effective, and rewarding to perform, but derivative. The libretto uses every cliché, or truism, about save-the-planet youth activism in the book; it’s didactic, not dramatic. Direction, ...

German space rock group is already shooting up the charts with their debut US LP. One of few continental groups able to make ...

Brighton metallers Architects have weathered through various tribulations in their almost twenty-year career. Formed by twins ...

There’s something exhilarating about seeing bands right at the very, very dawn of their careers. Will they be headlining the Houston Astrodome in five years’ time or working in chip shops? It’s all to ...

A cello concerto received its UK premiere in Manchester last night – almost 100 years after it was written. It’s by Maria ...

At the age of 83, Martha Argerich contains more personality in her little finger than many people do in their entire bodies.

Why is it so hard to write a decent play about Bach? Maybe, in part, because there are no words that can express anything as ...

The musician Abel Selaocoe reaches out to the ancestors, African and European, continuing a journey that spans continents and ...

They stopped making the BBC’s original Bergerac in 1991, so you can hardly complain that this reboot is premature. John ...

The war in Gaza has been going since 7 October 2023 — that’s about 15 months. But it’s strangely absent from British stages.