Erato’s thick booklet is a joy to peruse, containing scores of session photos and detailed descriptions of the various ...

In the 1920s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was as famous as it gets really, author of the beloved Sherlock Holmes stories, a ...

Anyone doubting Venom’s place on the highest level of the pantheon of Rock Gods might want to check out Sunn O)))’s recent, self-titled album. Their track “Does Anyone Hear Like Venom?” may not ape ...

Contrast and variety are as vital in a three-ballet programme as in a well-built sandwich. Typically that might include ...

Rick Rubin has revivified many late-career musicians, most notably Johnny Cash, whose quartet of American Recordings achieved ...

The Hallé Orchestra is still in many ways the well honed, burnished instrument created by Sir Mark Elder over his near ...

It’s not uncommon to suggest that we live in a post-genre musical era – but all too rarely does the discussion then move on ...

I’m a latecomer to John Robins and Elis James’s hugely popular podcast, having only started to listen during a period of ...

This play inhabits notionally less troubled times in its story of two titans of the Victorian era, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the latter of whom was the great-aunt of the legendary John Gielgud to ...

Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head.” And so it proves. Benjamin Britten’s fisherman Peter Grimes is ...