James Baillieu (piano) (Decca) ...

It’s the first date of Manchester rockers Witch Fever’s European tour and things are off to an iffy start. Drummer Annabelle ...

Jazz,” exclaims an audience member just after Plantoid launch into “Ultivatum Cultivation,” tonight’s second song – also the ...

On Paradises, the trio revel in retro-Balearica, indie-goes-house songs redolent of Brits-on-hols-on-Doves groovin’, mostly sung by Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. Those old enough might flash back to ...

The master pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus impressed upon Elisabeth Leonskaja the maxim "don't look for yourself in the music, but find the music in you", something she says she reflects upon ...

Do we really care what Hitler liked to eat? Well, here’s a film that does, so I can reveal an answer. Typical meals might have included chick pea salad with marinated courgette, pea soup with mint, or ...

After a career of constant line-up churn, the video for recent single “Profane Prophecy” would suggest that the Black Crowes ...

First seen in 2004, McVicar’s staging still has all the illicit sheen and lure of Marguerite’s jewels. In an era of austerity (even at the Royal Opera) this kind of old-school, expensive theatricality ...

But before the Ravel, the UK premiere of David Lang’s daisy. Composed for Venice’s Biennale Musica (where it was premiered by the Attaccas last year), the commission came with few – but striking – ...

Bob Crowley’s belle époque designs don’t so much leave you humming the scenery as bellowing it: that gilded ceiling! The Sissi-inspired ballgown! The black-and-red casino fantasy! Heading into its ...

Down in the bowels of the Royal Opera House, as far away from the hum and chatter of the foyer crowds, the massed voices of the main auditorium, cocooned in an artificially darkened, shrunken Linbury ...

As a disillusioned ex-admirer – like so many – it’s with a degree of dread that I approach Morrissey’s 14th solo album (the ...