- 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
Ian McKellen: On Stage
- 16 July 2019
It’s some years since I last saw Ian McKellen’s A Knight At The Theatre, a...
Hair
- 9 July 2019
As a young teenager I clearly remember standing in the school playground listening to the...
La Damnation de Faust
- 7 July 2019
Berlioz finally decided that this dark work was neither opera nor choral work and settled...






