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Even more than his new film, Jafar Panahi was a sensation at Cannes this year. For the first time in 15 years, the Iranian director was…

According to the fifth song on their first Christmas album, seasonal shenanigans in Old Crow Medicine Show’s family are boozy and raucous.…

Fire and ice are the elements invoked at the start of Handel’s remarkable opera of jealousy and betrayal, yet what gives it its power is…

This album truly is a delightful surprise. Winter Songs Vol. 2 is simply more fun, it swings harder and is filled with far more freshness…

From the team who gave us a sparkly L’étoile just a year ago, comes a fun-filled production of Prokofiev’s wacky, surreal and glorious…

Fear of being alone with our own thoughts, as much as fear of missing out, prevents most of us from disconnecting from our electronic…

It seldom happens that you long to hear choral music not in a modern auditorium but some chilly, echoing cavern of a great Victorian town…

Fierce, unpredictable, complex, cussed, commie. Seymour Hersh would probably admit to all those descriptions of him except the last. Now at…

There are enough historical reasons for differing approaches to Handel’s Messiah to allow every conductor to produce, effectively, their…