The long, hot summer of 2025 has been something else, right? Hate rallies, creeping authoritarianism, a weird reluctance to ...

Pianist Bruce Liu wasn’t the only star soloist last night, though he certainly had the most notes to play. Attention was riveted by at least five Philharmonia members and their maverick principal ...

But Imprints is an assured, confident creation, one whose form rewardingly mirrors its themes, and whose storyline – once finally uncovered – is genuinely touching. Amid the take-a-gamble ...

Deftones’ Private Music arrives as the band’s long-awaited tenth studio album, carrying with it the weight of expectation built from nearly three decades of powerful records. Known for mixing ...

At first, I had my doubts about Puccini’s Suor Angelica in this concert performance at the Proms with Sir Antonio Pappano and ...

A sticker on the cover of American Dust is says it’s “an ode to the beauty of the American Southwest,” specifically the High Desert area within the wider setting of California's Mojave Desert.

In terms of technical achievements, The Ode Islands is both inspiring and captivating, with that particular sense of enjoyment that comes from marvelling at how something’s being done while ...

For Delius – then a young man, visiting Norway in the late 1880s to walk in its mountains – his first encounter with Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra was nothing less than an epiphany. Already high ...

There’s a Proms paradox that’s familiar to Early Music fans. Some works are too challenging – too big, too expensive, too uncommercial, too obscure – to do anywhere else. The trouble is, the Royal ...

"Crazy comedy" was a recognised subgenre in post-war Czech cinema. Turn to this disc’s bonus features first and watch Michael ...

What would TV screenwriters do without drugs? In Flight, created by Mike Walden and Adam Randall, is yet another drama ...