The writer, performer, and lecturer Jeff Young’s latest, Wild Twin, tells – ostensibly – the story of his barefoot, ...

Midwinter Swimmers is the musical analogue of Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) series of paintings, where the familiar is ...

From James I’s campaign to wipe out witchery to the feuding sister sorceresses of The Wizard of Oz and the new film musical ...

Jazz music crosses, mixes and unites generations, and the 10 concerts I’ve seen at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival (out ...

Hard to believe it’s coming up to 30 years since “Love and Affection” put Joan Armatrading in the top 10, a track from her ...

Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Solo piano works Igor Levit (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker/Christian Thielemann (Sony) ...

"All’s well that ends well’. Sounds like the kind of phrase a guilty parent says to a disappointed child after they’ve been ...

There were points when this concert felt like the musical equivalent of watching the atom split – as well as notes there were ...

What’s to be said about an album that’s half well-executed body-moving, dancefloor pop and half sickly, slick schmaltz? It’s ...

How old were you when you first had an image of the Arctic? When you first had that image, what was it that most resonated?

Will Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour ever come to an end? Two years on from the last UK tour, he’s returned, with substantially ...

Cleveland is probably the American city most like the one in which I grew up. Early into the icy embrace of ...