- 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
Madama Butterfly: Ellen Kent and The Ukrainian National Municipal Opera Kyiv
- 10 March 2022
What an extraordinary evening. Madama Butterfly is always an emotive work, the story of a...
BPO – Silent Classics with Neil Brand (presenter & composer), David Gray (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)
- 7 March 2022
This was very different from the usual Sunday afternoon concert. It started with a chat...
PAY THE PIPER
- 26 February 2022
Glyndebourne is without doubt one of the world’s greatest opera houses, internationally acclaimed not only...
