Bengali pianist Zoe Rahman, because it evokes themes – voyage, migration and family – which resonate strongly with her. The composition was commissioned at short notice by the Hull Jazz Festival (as a ...
WDR Sinfonieorchester/Andrew Manze (Hyperion) ...
It was an awesome start, those three notes from the cellos even before the famous "Tristan" chord inspiring more deep emotion ...
One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...
It’s a big ask of an audience to watch a film which for most of its two hour running time, focuses just two actors, even when they are doing their best work. It’s impossible to fault Woody Norman, the ...
Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.
The “hiding in plain sight” technique has proved appallingly effective for a list of notorious sex offenders. When in doubt, get yourself a prominent slot on the BBC and hang out with royalty, and you ...
In 1939, the newspapers dubbed it the Hot Dog Summit. When King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth visited President Franklin Roosevelt, it was the first time a reigning monarch had visited a ...
Confessions II arrives amid a welter of promotional spectacle and global corporate partnerships. At heart, though, it’s Madonna retreating from projects stuck in development hell, and working through ...
The best thrillers have not one, but two twists. Often, there’s a predictable twist, and an unpredictable one. So it is with The Guilty, Chloë Moss’s adaptation for the stage of the 2021 film of the ...
Hot from its successful run at the Old Vic, Carrie Cracknell’s Olivier-nominated revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece has made a particularly sweet landing in the West End. For opening night was ...
To experience a performance by Seattle’s ambient metal kings, Sunn O))) is not like attending a conventional rock’n’roll gig, by any means. For a start, there are no drums, no bass and these days, no ...