You don't have to be mad to enjoy Gerald Barry's methodically berserk approach to Wilde, but your wits might have begun to ...

The key track gives the album its title. “Where the Fades Meet” opens with swelling strings, which are swiftly underpinned by ...

Her smartest trick here, though, is to have used the device of the band to cast a wry and hilarious eye over not just Muslim life but common preconceptions of it, and its complicated interactions with ...

Parts of the Beethoven struck with full, electric force, but perhaps the most successful overall performance - apart from Selaocoe's encore - was of Bach's G minor Fantasia and Fugue arranged by ...

Yes, the fatal lake of Bly that so attracts little Flora in Benjamin Britten’s 1954 opera (as in Henry James’s incomparably unsettling novella of 1898) must exert its scary pull. But here “the ...

At the start, Jessica is shown in court, ruling her work environment with a strong hand, putting male barristers in their place, and showing feminist empathy to rape victims. At the same time, she has ...

Social engineering gets a bad press. The whiff of creating a eugenics-inspired master race by other means clings to it, so ...

There’s a long and rich tradition of scabrous indie rock lyricism from Yorkshire. Sheffield’s Jarvis Cocker and Alex Turner ...

Dismemberment is a key motif in the writer-director Simon Stone’s The Oresteia. It reflects the treatment of two of the piece ...

The title “Tone Phase 1 for 2 Guitars & 4 Oscillators” is a giveaway, clearly indicating what’s going to be heard once the LP ...

A voice at the start of dancer Aakash Odedra’s performance speaks out of the darkness about the Sufi myth behind what we are ...