Katrin Finch has been at the top her field for a long time now. The Welsh harpist was appointed to the ancient office of Royal Harpist by Prince Charles in 2000, was nominated for a Classical Brit ...

Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the programme for the English Concert’s delightful, vivacious performance in St George ...

Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the ...

Cinema has a deep distrust of the devout. Even though many movie types are tied up in all sorts of personal spiritual ...

The bite of winter, barely registering these past months in London, snapped at my cheeks on arriving at Leeds Railway Station ...

We’ve heard of dad rock, but how about dad techno? This Spanish movie, directed by the French-born Oliver Laxe, immerses us ...

If this album signals where Gorillaz are headed next, it suggests a band that is still adventurous but more grounded than ever. The Mountain stands as a thoughtful, immersive work that rewards ...

Rose Wylie’s paintings are a blast of fresh air. Direct, anarchic, exuberant and determinedly daft, they make a mockery of the self-importance that so often infects the art world.Now in her nineties, ...

If heart were art, there would be no stopping The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, the 2012 Rachel Joyce novel that became ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s semi-satirical thriller The Secret Agent looks back with incredulity, disgust, and ambiguous ...

I don’t remember yesterday, but I remember when I was eight years old.” The opening lyrics of “Sure & Steady,” Gained / Lost’s second track, underline a core concern of UK indie stalwarts The Wave ...

Last week I saw Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, a play which behind its pyrotechnic wit affirms that sorrow and calamity can strike chaotically at the heart of any human idyll. At first glance, the programme ...