- 26 October 2025
On the day we turn the clocks back, ready for winter, we were transported by...
- 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...
Reviews
THE LIGHTNING THIEF
- 1 October 2025
Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...
BPO – A New World – Junyan Chen (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)
- 29 September 2025
This concert season began so quietly with the gently lulling opening of Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano...
SPRING AWAKENING
- 29 September 2025
This extraordinary work, Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Wedekind’s first major play Frühlings Erwachen, must have...
