From Taverner to Today review – Christ Church Cathedral Choir celebrate Twelfth Night and a special anniversary at Wigmore ...

Putting aside elves on shelves, Rudolph, Santa’s unhealthy diet and other 20 th century customs, Christmas has long had folklore and traditions associated with it that, while not found in the biblical ...

It’s rare these days for an artist to arrive, seemingly fully-formed, with no advance hype. At the risk of sounding like an old man shouting at a cloud, it’s all algorithms, Tik Toks and content ...

Not only is The Glasshouse International Centre for Music spectacularly set on the banks of the River Tyne, with wide views of the city of Newcastle, but it houses in Sage One a superb concert hall ...

Staged at Covent Garden for the first time since its 1735 premiere, this new Ariodante reframes Handel’s drama as a Chekhovian family implosion that yields mixed results. Relationships fray almost ...

There’s nothing like an invigorating blast of trumpets and glory to start the final countdown to Christmas, and, performing true to form on Friday evening, the early-music ensemble Vox Luminis, under ...

Robert Plant is one of rock’s great survivors, but he’s also one of rock’s great chameleons, having shifted and adapted his musical projects to not only weather the 45 years since the dissolution of ...

Baroque specialist ensemble Pulcinella, under cellist and Director Ophélie Gaillard, are joined by countertenor Zoltán Daragó for a smorgasbord of short works by Handel, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Porpora ...

The return of The Charlatans in 2025 after eight years away has been cause for considerable celebration. The reason for their return, 14th album We Are Love, is proof positive that the creative flame ...

Warren Ellis may arguably be best known for his work as part of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds but for over 30 years he has also been the trailblazing leader and violinist of Dirty Three, the trio he plays ...

Charpentier, Howells and Thomas make for slightly odd bedfellows in a Christmas presentation from the innovative vocal (and instrumental) ensemble under director Robert Hollingsworth. The instruments ...

When Black Grape announced earlier this year that they were getting back on the road in November/December to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut, number one album It’s Great When You’re ...