A gem for me this year has been the collaborative project between the veteran minimalist composer Chihei Hatakeyama and jazz ...

There’s nothing like an anodyne new(ish) work to give a masterpiece an even higher profile. Rachel Portman‘s Tipping Points, promising to address climate change issues, was so bland and featureless it ...

The descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord.

RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing ...

Does absolutely everything have to get more difficult with each passing year? Apparently so. The amount of time I’ve spent ...

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth has been adapted from the book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, and leads the viewer through Swire’s tortuous quest ...

Mk.gee has been an unexpected thread in a year of music that’s pulled me in many different directions, punctuating the need ...

Yet that slice of heaven still served as a breath from another planet in a glittering programme: did the audience realise it was getting one of the world's best horn players, Alec Frank-Gemmill, to ...