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The gifted writer-director Stefan...

What happens when great musicians play weak music? I couldn’t help but think about that while I listened to the musicians of Chineke! Chamber...

“Telstar” was released 60 years ago this week. On 17 August 1962...

First, a bit of housekeeping. Maybe it was the three-and-a-half-hour duration, or maybe the unfamiliar Sri Lankan subject matter, or maybe even...

Klaus Mäkelä, 26-year old chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris, lined up for the same role at the Royal Concertgebouw...


Cass McCombs has something of the detailed, opaque depth of his late peer Jason Molina, with more taste for pop shapes under a broader musical...

Proper music tells stories just about itself, the stern pedagogues insist; it doesn’t (or anyway shouldn’t) paint descriptive pictures of places...

The last couple of series of Shetland (BBC One) brought the...