"It was insanely excellent," enthused one of the Järvi Academy Symphony Orchestra's young musicians about the Estonian ...

London was where James Taylor got his big break when, after a rocky, drug-strewn apprenticeship in New York City, he ...

But the dust doesn’t disappear. Government announcements deem it a “necessary evil”. It plagues the local residents and especially the workers in a down-at-heel local factory. One local (Wisarut ...

On the downside, many of these songs would be improved by production that was earthier and less squeaky clean. On the plus side, Twain’s voice has famously suffered health depredations, and its ...

Virtuosos all, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers marks the debut of fiddler Brittany Haas with the band which, in addition to Chris Thiele, includes Chris Eldridge on guitar, Paul Kowert on bass ...

Can the 1916 Prologue of Strauss and Hofmannsthal added to a revised version of a 1912 opera-within-a-play setting the ...

Parts of the Beethoven struck with full, electric force, but perhaps the most successful overall performance - apart from Selaocoe's encore - was of Bach's G minor Fantasia and Fugue arranged by ...

The Ukrainian-born Finnish Dalia Stasevska is a true Boadicea of conductors – though she stands shorter than many of the musicians over whom she presides, she has a fire and charisma that could ...

I've never bought the line that Richard Strauss's incredible 1905 psychodrama to most of Oscar Wilde's text is just a tone poem with voices overlying. It's music-drama neurasthenically alert to every ...

It certainly went out with a set-piece bang of a kind from which there would seem no way back. The marriage of Katherine (Elaine Cassidy) and Tom Weston (Ben Daniels) could hardly get any worse – it’s ...

It’s always a pleasure to meet again with Charles Lloyd, whose sweet and expressive tone first enchanted me as a teenager in ...

The accelerating feud with Deano is exactly what Nicky needs to liberate herself from her social hibernation. It brings her into the orbit of another lonely singleton, likeably awkward traffic ...