There was excellent music making in the Hallé concert in Manchester last night, and there was self-admitted “noise”. Briefly, ...

The quandary is this. Middlesbrough singer Amelia Coburn made one of my favourite albums of last year, her debut, Between the ...

Serious realisation of the seven often thorny Martinů string quartets is a major undertaking. When I spoke to Veronika ...

As something of an immigrant to the capital myself in the long hot summer of 1984, I gobbled up Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes’s novel of an outsider embracing the temptations and dangers of ...

Nine billion streams a year. That’s the sheer scale on which the music of Ludovico Einaudi reaches audiences. The Italian, who will be 70 this November, is courteous and genial in person – I ...