- 25 October 2025
Well, what has Oscar Wilde got to do with early music? It’s complicated but it...
- 23 October 2025
Viols of all sizes were very popular in Tudor and Stuart Britain but they fell...
- 22 October 2025
Craig Jordan-Baker discusses his new book Brick Dust, exploring themes of family, hoarding, and the...
- 20 October 2025
Isn’t it rather naughty to be obsessed with nuns? Well, when their music is so...
- 20 October 2025
There’s a very good reason that Coleridge-Taylor’s work was so popular 100 years ago, and...
Reviews
BPO – The European Connection – Junyan Chen (piano), Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
- 14 February 2022
This programme was full of the promise of Spring. Mendelssohn, the perfect feel-good composer, countered...
Round the Horne
- 1 February 2022
What could be more comforting on a cold winter’s evening than a huge chunk of...
Fatal Attraction
- 23 January 2022
In these days of chattering, sweetie wrapper rustling and phone fiddling audiences I seldom get...
