Rehab people will tell you there are three stages to drug abuse: fun; fun with problems; problems. There’s also a fourth ...

Myra Hess was one of the most important figures in British cultural life in the mid-20th century: the pre-eminent pianist of ...

An album is one thing, a live show is another. A truism of course, but one which is inescapable during this London date by ...

Harry Hill reminds us at one point during his latest touring show that he’s 60, but there’s no let-up in the energy he brings ...

Let’s finally face the elephant in the room: the most popular Viennese operetta, packed with hit numbers, no longer works on ...

Ravel celebrations (birth centenary of the former, 150th of the latter) brought Bertrand Chamayou back: after his performance ...

A year ago, after a deeply disappointing Manon Lescaut at Hackney Empire, I wrote here that English Touring Opera had often ...

Sol Abrahams, singer and guitarist for Essex rock’n’rollers Bilk, was suffering from a bit of guitar trouble in Birmingham on ...

Spare a thought – please – for Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003). In 1956, she became the very first woman to ...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our screens ...

Hinds don't believe in God. They declared this as they surveyed the converted church that is St Luke's, and given the past ...

So, the E minor nocturne has Ott filmed in billowing snow, whereas the C minor No.2 transports us to the Japanese urban ...