- 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
LORD OF THE FLIES
- 26 September 2025
Golding’s novel sits so firmly in my childhood memory, a curriculum classic that at the...
BREMF: Palestrina Crawl – BREMF Consort of Voices, James Elias (director)
- 22 September 2025
Twenty minutes is quite long enough polyphony on a Saturday morning, especially when sung so...
HAMLET
- 19 September 2025
Three works by Shakespeare in one year, first the splendid revival of Nicholas Hytner’s A...






