Even for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the world, WOMAD 2026 ...

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very ...

Had you been at John Wilson's Respighi spectacular on Friday, or heard it on BBC Radio 3/watched it on BBC Four, you might have perceived last night's journey up and down Richard Strauss's Bavarian ...

One thing's for certain: the CBSO has done it again in appointing the best of Music Directors. Yamada took over from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in 2024, and this is the first time I've heard him work with ...

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating. The globalisation of music culture, from ultra mainstream to underground, in the ...

What’s on their first LP is a challenging punk-infused form of angular art rock, with leanings towards David Bowie and the Roxy Music of For Your Pleasure. The band was aggressive, forceful, very much ...

The air is thick with theatrical smog… then comes prolonged darkness. Gradually, a dull glimmer of warm light reveals a ...

Forget Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with bells, cannons and military bands (most people have, but it was my introduction to ...

"It was insanely excellent," enthused one of the Järvi Academy Symphony Orchestra's young musicians about the Estonian ...

London was where James Taylor got his big break when, after a rocky, drug-strewn apprenticeship in New York City, he ...

Boonbunchachoke sets us up in the opening sequence with a key theme: how to handle the past. We see a beautiful sculpted frieze in pale stone taking shape, based on a tableau of people from different ...

If a week is a long time in politics, 30 years is an aeon in popular culture. It was in 1996 that Danny Boyle’s film of Irvine Welsh’s novel, Trainspotting, exploded over Britpop Britain, with its ...